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TIIE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
NEWS OF MONDAY, JULY 21, 1913
U. S, WILL NOT RECOGNIZE
GOVERNMENT OF HUERTA
WASHINGTON, July 21.—The
United States does not intend to rec
ognize the Huerta Government in
Mexico, because that administration
is reported to be tottering to its ruin
and is not expected to last the year
out.
This was the gist of President Wil
son's discussion of the Mexican sit
uation with the Washington corre
spondents to-day. The President said
that at present he is doing nothing
but studying the Mexican problem so
as to be able to discuss it thorougniy
with Ambassador Wilson when the.
latter reaches Washington Friday.
Put he indicated clearly that the j
Administration does not intend to rec- j
ognize Huerta, no matter what advice
the Ambassador gives.
The Chief Executive has been ad
vised on the highest authority that
President Huerta is losing Ills grip. It
is not considered good policy to rec
ognize a government which has but a
short time to live, and the United
States will reserve its approbation C)T
another and stronger regime, which,
it is hoped, will succeed the Huer*a
Government.
The President to-day indicated
clearly that there would be no further
steps in the Mexican matter until aft
er the White House conference sched
uled for Friday.
PLANS MASSACRE REPORTED.
EL PASO, July 21.—Efforts were
made to-day to obtain news from"
the Madero lumber camp, 200 miles
southwest of here, where a small band
of Americans was reported surround
ed by Mexican rebels* and in danger
of being massacred.
Appeals for aid were received by
officials of the Madero Lumber Com
pany here, General Francisco Castro,
federal commander in Juarez, and
American <’onsul Thomas D. Edwards.
General Castro was asked to send
rtoops to protect the Americans.
The Madero Lumber Company is
an American-Canadian Corporation.
It owns a large area of forest lands,
controls the Mexican Northwestern
Railroad and has built several small
towns in Northwestern Mexico.
U. S. WARSHIP AT FRONTERA.
WASHINGTON, July 21—Either a
United States battleship or a gunboat I
will be sent to Frontera, Mexico, in I
response to a request from the United
States Consul there, for the protection |
of American lives and property, it ,
was said at the Navy Department to
day.
The revolutionists, it is said, have
occupied two American-owned plan
tations there and have threatened to ;
attack the port. The Navy Depart
ment will send one of the warships
now at Tampico to Frontera as soon
as Acting Secretary of the Navy j
Roosevelt receives the request of the 1
United States Consul from the State
Department, which is expected hour
ly.
At the War Department It was said
to-day that permission will be grant- '
ed to General Obregon, the rebel lead
er, to visit Los Angeles.
The State Department has received j
no further dispatches relating to the
battle between the federals and con- !
etitutionalists yesterday, but it Is ex- j
pected the conflict will be decisive in
determining whether this province
will be added to the territory now un
der rebel control.
FREE LAND FOR JAPANESE.
MEXICO CITY, July 21.—A note
granting concessions to 50,000 Jap
anese for free lands in the State of
Morelos will be sent to the Mikado of
Japan in a few days.
ENCROACHMENT ON CANAL
ZONE FEARED BY WILSON
WASHINGTON, July 21.—That the
United States fears encroachments ;
by Europeon powers upon the Canal
Zone and is therefore preparing to
establish an armed protectorate over
all Central America was clearly indi
cated during President Wilson’s semi
weekly conference with the “newspa
per cabinet’ to-day.
Protection of the canal, the Presi- |
dent said, is the underlying principle
of the Nicaraguan proposal by Sec. i
retary of State Bryan as the means i
for settlement of disputes relative to ;
the canal, and the reason why Nica- j
ragua was selected as the first coun
try to be approached in connection J
with the policy which is destined to j
succeed “dollar diplomacy.”
The President said the United j
States desired to render friendly as- j
sistance to all Latin America, and in
dicated that the other republics wouid j
be approached when negotiations j
with Nicaragua had been completed. |
Secretary Bryan’s Nicaraguan pol
icy is not intended for application to i
all the Central American republics,
but each will be treated with sepa
rately.
The Platt amendment giving the
United States the right to intervene
in all the Latin American countries
will be introduced into all the agree
ments with these nations, and the
United States will be enabled to ex
ercise an army protectorate over all
Central America, and the Monroe
Doctrine w ill be bolstered in its w eak
est part.
It is realized that European nations
may object to the power of the Unit
ed States, but their objections mere
ly will be “noted and filed,'’ because
the United States believes it is en
tirely within its rights in defending
the Monroe Doctrine as it sees fit.
COLUMBUS FIRST.
WASHINGTON. July 21— Assistant
Secretary of State Osborne, as the
result of his visit to the Dominican
Republic and Hayti, suggests that
the bones of Christopher Columbus
which are at Santo Domingo City, be
placed aboard the first ship to go
through the Panama CanaL
THIS DRESS WAS
TOO MUCH FOR
PRIM RICHMOND
T HIS picture shows Miss
Flossie Brown in, the split
skirt which caused so much
excitement in Richmond. Ya., that
the young lady was arrested,
fined $25 and given 24 hours in
which to leave town. The idea
of the slit skirt did not appeal at
all to the Virginians, but it has
not been received with so much
disfavor elsewhere, for Miss
Brown, or Blossom Browning, as
she prefers to be called, has been
invited to wear it in Pittsburg
and Baltimore.
MRS. PANKHURST ARRESTED.
LONDON, July 21.—In one of the
fiercest riots which has marked the
suffragette propaganda in Great
Britain, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst,
leader of the militants was arrested
to-day with six of her followers.
The fight with the detectives came
when the officers tried to arrest Mrs.
Pankhurst as she was entering the
Pavilion Music Hall, where her
daughter Sylvia and other prominent
suffragettes were holding a meeting.
Mrs. Pankhurst was seized after a
violent struggle, and when the fren
zied women saw their leader in the
hands of the officers they charged
upon them, using hatpins and all
sorts of weapons to wrest their lead
er away.
The officers held their prisoner and
resisted the attacks of the women.
Six other women who w’ere the ring
leaders in the attack on the officers
also were taken into custody.
Mrs. Pankhurst w’as taken to Hol
loway jail.
She escaped from the detectives
yesterday by having a fellow' militant
leave her house deeply veiled. The
detectives believed the veiled woman
was the militant leader and only after
they had forced her into a taxicab
did they learn their mistake.
FITE ATTACKS OFFICIALS.
CARTERSVILLE, July 21.—To a
crowd that packed his courtroom
Judge A. W. Fite spoke to-day de
nouncing the present city government
and openly attacking C. M. Milam,
chairman of the City School Board;
Mayor Young and others. He charged
nepotism In the conduct of the city
affairs. He denounced publications
regarding him in certain newspapers
as “premeditated, willful, wicked and
malicious falsehoods.”
MUST WALK IN SHADE.
BOULDER, COLO., July 21.—Local
officials have ruled that tourists who
wear diaphanous gowns must walk
on the shady side of the street.
TIE TARIFF VOTE FEARED
BY SENATE DEMOCRATS
BULGARIAN TROOPS TAMED;
TURKS RETAKE ADRIAN0PLE
WASHINGTON, July 21.—Senator
Chamberlain, of Oregon, announced
to-day that he would not be bound by
SOFIA, July 21.—Suffering defeat
after defeat at the hands of its for
mer allies and friends, the crowning
the Senate Democratic caucus to vote
for the Underwood-Simmons tariff
bill. This leaves only 48 Democratic
Senators upon which the Democrats
can rely to support the measure and
makes the vote of Vice President
Marshall necessary to break a tie if
Chamberlain bolts on the final vote.
“I want it understood,” said Cham
berlain, “that as a Senator from Ore
gon I am absolutely free to support
what is right in this matter. I am
not bound to support this or any other
measure. What I want is the truth-
light.”
Chamberlain did not state he would
vote against the bill, and his Demo
cratic colleagues were of the opinion
that he would be found among the
faithful when the bill comes to a
vote.
Senator Burton, of Ohio, Republi
can, attacked in the Senate to-day the
ad valorem duties in the Underwood-
Simmons tariff bill; denounced as fals-
Democratic predictions that (he bill
would reduce the cost of living, and
critcised the measure for its “free
trade tendencies.”
Burton declared that members of
the Democratic party admitted the
Underwood - Simmons tariff bill
would not reduce the cost of living.
He quoted from a “signed interview”
by Secretary of Commerce Redfield,
in which Redfield termed the benefit
to be derived from the tariff bill
“moral and mental,” and stated that
no “intelligent man expects it (the
bill) to be more than a step toward
the reduction of the cost of living.”
“I believe that the proposed meas
ure is based on theories which are
erroneous and that its adoption will
prove disastrous to our industrial ac-
tivites and to the whole framework
of our economic and social life,” said
Burton.
“Furthermore, it will not accom
plish the beneficial results which are
claimed.
“The business of the country, its
industrial life, had adjusted itself to
a party of protection. For 50 years
ihe prevailing rates have been high.
We can not change from these rates
in a single year without widespread
Injury. The proposed changes are
without precedent in the fiscal history
of our own or any other country.”
BRYAN ON SALARY.
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, MD„
July 21.—"If an annual salary of
$12,000 for the Secretary of State is
not sufficient to maintain him and his
family in a manner befitting the dig
nity of the high office, would you
advocate an increase in that salary?”
This question was asked William
Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State,
after he had delivered a Chautauqua
lecture for which he received $250.
“No. I would not advocate an in
crease,” replied Mr. Bryan. “The
Hilary is sufficient to meet the ex
penses of the Secretary of State when
those expenses are confined to his
home and official life.
“This, However, is not the case with
me. The fact ought not to be over
looked, and it ought not to be neces
sary for me to mention, that in my
life are certain fixed charges which
must be met. These charges, with my
living expenses and expenses inciden
tal to my position exceed my salary.”
SAYS SHE AIDED BURGLAR.
BIRMINGHAM, July 21.—Mrs. Me.
dora Newton, daughter of S. H. Mc-
Master, formerly president of a Mo
bile bank, is in jail here charged with
being an accessory to alleged burgla
ries by her husband, Louis Kittler,
alias Newton. It is said that the
young wife, dressed as a man, aided
her husband.
Kittler had confessed to seventeen
burglaries in and about Birmingham
but steadfastly declares his wife was
not concerned in any of them.
As a girl Mrs. Newton was a mem
ber of one of Mobile’s most exclusive
society sets.
COUPLE IN SAME CELL.
MACON, July 21.—James D. No
bles and wife, owners of a grocery
store in the suburbs, are in the Bibb
County jail on the charge of violat
ing the prohibition law. They occupy
the same cell.
Mrs. Nobles was arrested a month
ago on a similar charge, but gave
a $500 bond. Now she and her hus
band are accused as the result of a
basketful of pint bottles of whisky
being found behind the counter in
their store.
MAYOR OUT ON BAIL.
INTER NATION AI. FALLS, MINN.,
July 21.—Mayor Edeke, of Ranier.
Mlnn.j is out on bail to-day, charged
with being an accessory to the mur
der of F. J. Couture, owner of the
Ranier Hotel. James Kelly was in
the county jail here, charged with the
actual murder.
Couture was beaten to death by a
crowd <f men after he made a state
ment that no attempt was being made
in Ranier to enforce the saloon-clos
ing laws. Mayor Edeke Is charged
with being a member of the crowd.
DOGS OF QUALITY.
BROCKTON. MASS., July 21.—
Twelve Pomeranians, owned by Mrs.
E. V. Graves, a prominent business
woman here, have a whole house to
themselves. The dogs have individual
beds, electric fans, a valet and a bath
twice a day.
Each dog has its own room.
SLEEPS 150 HOURS.
ST. LOUIS, July 21.—Miss Chris
tine Fischer, a school teacher, who
slept almost uninterruptedly for 150
hours following a tennis game, de
clared she felt greatly refreshed,
thiAiiyl^ £ 1 It UtuL
humiliation coming at the hands of
the Turks, who recaptured Adrianopie
without opposition, the warlike spirit
of the Bulgarians has been tamed.
With the Roumanian army within
a day’s march of Sofia, the Bulgars
are ready to accept peace at any price.
The retaking of Adrianopie by the
Turks seems to mark the utter col
lapse of Bulgaria’s resistance to the
attacks of its former allies and its
former enemy.
Apparently Bulgaria’s recent crush
ing reverses are largely due to dis
sensions among its commanders in
the field and the lack of confidence
on the part of the Government in the
heads of its army.
From present indications it is like
ly that Bulgaria will be shorn of the
territory which came to it as the
result of the victories over the Turks
in the recent war.
Already the Sofia Government has
offered Roumania an important terri
torial concession to cease hostilities.
It is likely that the other Balkan
States will claim a large share of
territory as the fruits of victory.
Peace arrangements probably will
be made without the assistance of the
powers, the Balkan States being in
sistent upon settling their dispute
without outside interference.
READY TO ARBITRATE.
ATHENS, July 21.—If Bulgaria ac
cepts the preliminary conditions of
the other Balkan States, the war in
the allied States will be brought to a
speedy conclusion.
The Greek, Servian and Montene--
grin Governments to-day informed
the Russian representative that they
are ready to negotiate with Bulgaria
to end hostilities.
WILLING FOR PEACE PARLEY.
SOFIA, July 21.—The Bulgarian
Government to-day officially notified
Roumania and the powers that it is
willing to conclude peace with the
other Balkan States.
The Bulgarian delegates have ar
rived at Nish, and it is probable that
peace negotiations will be begun to
day.
GOMPERS WAS TRAILED.
WASHINGTON, July 21.—Colonel
Mulhall, testifying to-day before the
Lobby Investigation Committee, de
clared that Judge Davenport, attor
ney for the Buck’s Stove and Range
Company of St. Louis, trailed Samuel
Gompers during the 1908 campaign
with stenographers, who reported all
of Gompers' speeches.
The motive, he said, was the hope
that Gompers would say something
which might be brought to the atten
tion of the Federal courts, which had
under consideration the injunction
and contempt proceedings against
Gompers and the other heads of the
American Federation of Labor.
CANT SOLVE HER MIND.
WASHINGTON, July 21—Dr. B. R.
Logie, Government alienist for the
District of Columbia, came right out
in a courtroom and said:
“All the ordinary tests fail. No
one on earth has ever been able to
solve the psychology of the feminine
mind.”
Dr. Logie was a witness in the
legal battle between Mrs. Emma Prall
Knorr and Mrs. Elizabeth C. Prali,
sisters-in-law, who have been in con
troversy’ for ten years over a large
estate.
SUE FOR COW’S TAIL.
CINCINNATI, July 21.—Holden
Bros., of Kentucky, breeders of thor
oughbred cattle, have sued the Louis
ville and Cincinnati Packet Company
for $1,200 for the loss of the end or
switch of a registered Jersey cow's
tail.
The complaint recites that the cow
was shipped from Louisville to Cin
cinnati on July 6 and that en route
the end of her tail was pulled or cut
off. making her valueless for prize
winning or show purposes.
WOMEN MAY SMOKE.
CHICAGO, July 21.—Women on
transcontinental trains may smoke
in the buffet car. The precedent was
set by Miss Hester McKay, who said
her father was a Chicago manufac
turer. She and several other women
passengers on a train that was speed
ing toward Yellowstone Park to-day
puffed cigarettes with the men in the
buffet car.
Of the twenty male passengers in
the car nineteen voted to allow the
women to smoke.
CHARGES BOYCOTT.
MACON. July 21.—Dr. W. N. Ains
worth charged from the pulpit at the
Mulberry Street Methodist Church
last night that the saloon men and
their friends have organized a boy
cott against the fifty members of the
Law Enforcement League who last
week signed a petition for an injunc
tion against the saloons and social
cluos.
GAME WARDEN USES GLASSES.
SAVANNAH, July 21.—From the win
dows of a business house on Bay Street
Charles B. Westcott, State Deputy Fsh
and Game Warden, watched a hunter
through a pair of field glasses as he
came down the Savannah River in a
boat, and placed him under arrest when
he reached the city.
The hunter, J. W. Cooper, had a gun,
ammunition and a bag containing eight
picked birds, packed in ice, which West
cott has identified as summer duck.
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