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V ALWAYS FIRST ® ® The SUNDAY AMERICAN Order it NOWr - Both Phones Main 8000 The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit-^-GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results South Georgia VOL. XI. NO. 303. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1913. By Copyright. 1 The Q* eorglan Co. 2 CENTS. PAT wo more 12 JURY PANELS READY FOR FRANK TRIAL +•+ +•+ *!••+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ t*+ +•+ n +••{. +•+ *$••+ +#t +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•*!• +•+ +•+ +•+ GO VERNMENT TO DIVORCE RAILROADS FROM TRUSTS TO END Interstate Commerce Commission to Halt “Allowances” Costing Lines $42,000,000 a Year. WASHINGTON, July 24,—The an- swer of the Interstate Comerce Com mission to the aplication of the rail roads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers for permission to make a general in crease of 5 per cent in freight rates, will be as follows: 1. The application will be denied. 2. All railroads will be ordered to discontinue making “allowances” to certain favored big industrial com binations. This will save the general public from paying the aditional $42,000,000 year which the railroads are asking for and deprive certain big industrial corporations of a sum ranging be tween $50,000,000 and $100,000,000 an nually. The Commission during the past few months has secretly made an In vestigation to determine just the ex tent to which the practice of making “allowances” to industrial short line railroads, owned by manufacturing concerns, is prevalent. His Names and Facts. It is now in possession of the names of the concerns which receive these “allowances” or rebates, or dis criminatory rates—and in addition it hay the names of the railroads which pay them, the amounts received by the favored industrial corporations and something of the extent to which the practice injures the competing manufacturers, who are not in a po sition to enter into such arrange ments. In a large number of instances, it is claimed, the practice amounts to ex tortion. The railroads are compelled by the demands of competition to make allowances to the manufacturer for transferring his product over nis' own insignificant trackage to the junction where the regular railroad takes up his cars. Where several railroads are bidding for such a man-^ ufacturer’s business the one which makes the most liberal allowance usually gets the freight. To End the Extortion. In view of this fact it is expected that the answer which the commis sion will give the railroads will meet with their approval and co-operation, and will do away with the most im portant of existing improper prac tices without the necessity of prose cution. The railroads are asking for the five per cent increase on the ground /hat they must have increased rev enue to pay their large operating expenses, and particularly, to pay the higher wages demanded by their employees. The recent demands for higher wages would take $17,000,000. Can Pay Wac,© Advance. Under the order which the Inter state Commerce Commission will is sue the railroads will get mcg*e than $42,000,000 by simply cutting off an improper expense, and corresponding ly, the favored trusts and combina tions which have been mulcting them of the amount will be deprived of it. The railroads will be placed in a position to pay their employees the living wage they demand, the danger of a huge strike will be avoided, and the whole thing will be accomplished without the shippers—and through them the general public—being re quired to pay more for the transpor tation of the necessities of life. Sewage Plant To Be Finished by Sept. 1 W. A. Hansel, assistant chief of construction, has announced that the Peachtree Creek sewage disposal plant will be ready for operation by September 1.‘ With the completion of this plant Peachtree Creek, about which there has been much complaint, immediately will be purified. The main part of the plant practi cally is complete, but the city has not yet been able to get sufficient stone for the filter beds. Girl Outwits Cupid; Wins Her Own Rival WHEELING, W. VA., July 24.— War, or Sherman’s equivalent for it, “hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Harry Pendleton mournfully confides to his friends. Pendleton had been engaged to Des- sle McIntyre for two years, when he met Henrietta Aiken, a Bridgeport, Ohio, belle. He fell a w illing conquest and Miss McIntyre was peeved, but not without hope. She went cupid one better by going to Bridgeport, cutting her hair short, donning the clothes of a modern Beau Brummel and “cutting out” Pendleton in mas terly fashion. Then she doffed her masquerade. Pendleton refuses to say whether or not Miss Aiken has permitted him to resume his courtship. Tipsy Monkey Kills Dog, Maims Master SMITHERS, W. VA., July 24—A drunken monkey belonging to George Smith, went on a rampage and after killing a bulldog, so severely chewed up Smith’s hand that he was forced to have it amputated. Smith gave a party and the mon key had come in for his share of refreshments. After the guests de parted the monkey evinced a desire for another drink. Smith refused. The bulldog then sprang at the Simian, but the latter Jumped on the dog’s back and with his claws soon blinded him, then sank his teeth into the neck, killing him. Smith suffered his injuries in his efforts to subdue his pet. Capital Matrons Vie As Queens of Beauty WASHINGTON, July 24—Who i3 to be the beauty of the new' admin istration is the much-discussed ques tion here. Here are the leading as pirants: Mrs. John E. Osborne, wife of the Second Assistant Secretary of State, dark eyes and hair, clear-cut fea tures and a graceful, slender figure. Mrs. Dudley Field Malone, wife of the Third Assistant Secretary of State, Irish type, black hair, blue eyes, sparkling with mirth. Mrs. Timothy Ansberry, golden hair, oval contuor, large blue eyes and su perb figure. Antique Inkstand Brings $7,010 at Sale Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, July 24.—At a sale of ob jects of art and porcelain at Christie’s a bronze inkstand of the first half of the sixteenth century sold for $7,010. It is formed as an equestrian group of Marcus Aurelius, with an inkwell and sand box by his side, mounted on hexagonal plinth, with foliage border and claw feet. Three old Worcester hexagonal vases and covers brought $655. A bronze group of St. George and the dragon was sold to- $1,110. Charlton Dying Is Verdict of Doctors JERSEY CITY, N. J., July 24. — Porter Charlton, who Is In jail hero awaiting extradition to Italy for trial for the murder of his bride at Lake Como, three years ago, is so ill no never will reach Italy alive, accord ing to a statement by his physicians. He is a victim of pulmonary tubercu losis. Two members of the Italian con stabulary are expected to arrive in this country this week to take Charl ton to Milan. Back From Liberia To Die in the South NEW YORK, July 24.—Pauline Woodson, a 69-year-old negress, was permitted yesterday to land in this country on the assurance of her son- in-law, David Robertson, that he would care for her in his home at Charleston, S. C. Fifteen years s-o Pauline, her hus band and daughter went to Liberia and built a hut In the woods. They thought the life of a semi'-civiltzed African superior to the drudgery of their Southern home. Her husband and daughter died in Liberia, and she came back to die in South Carolina. DIXIE TAR Anderson Youth, Heir to Mother's $250,000 Estate, Killed in Brawl. PHILADELPHIA, July 24.—Wilbur Martin, the young sailor from Ander son, S. C., who was killed here re cently in a brawl in a tenderloin sa loon, was worth more than $250,000 in his own right, according to Informa tion received here to-day. The fascination that the sea held for him and the adventures of a naval career led him to give up the enjoy ment of his fortune to become a com mon seaman on the battleship Con- nectciut. He inherited this fortune when his mother died last March. His relatives at once began to plead with him io give up his adevtnurous life and sett’e down in Anderson. The lure of the sea was too great, however, and ne disregarded their pleadings and ad vice. In despair, his relatives ap pealed to Washington, but this last hope was without avail. The Connecticut has been at the League Island Navy Yard several weeks. With the rest of the sailor®, Martin was in the habit of coming ashore and visiting the places of amusement. He was in a saloon in the old tenderloin district the other night when he became involved In a quarrel with a stranger. Words led to blows and a general brawl resulted. Suddenly a weapon was drawn and Martin sank to the floor. A hurry was sent to the police and to a nearby hospital. Martin was unconscious and died within a few minutes. Before her death his mother had argued with him to leave the navy and come home, where he could have every luxury that he desired. His in variable reply was that he loved the service too well and w'ould stay in .t all his life. Foreign Colony in Shanghai in Peril Special Cable to The Georgian. SHANGHAI, July 24.—Foreign residents of this city are in grave danger as a result of the fighting be tween the loyal troops and the south ern insurgents. A foreign naval bri gade from the warships in the har bor is being held in readiness to land at a moment’s notice should the sit uation become more acute. The Government officials are charg ing that Japan is aiding the revolt and is lending all its strength to the citizens of the southern countries in the hope that the Republic may be disintegrated. 404 Members Enroll In Railroad Y.M.C. A. Acquisition of 404 new members through a whilwind campaign will be celebrated by the Railroad Young Men’s Christian Association Thurs day night. Prizes will be given the contestants, the awards being a gold watch, a gold fob. a gold signet ring and consolation prizes. J. W. Whitaker, yardmaster of the Southern Railway, and L. M. Hunter, traveling fireman of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, led the contest. W. W. Walts, superintendent of the Southern terminals, will present the prizes. OPTIMISTIC AT 110. BLOOMINGTON. ILL. July 24.— James Morgan, of Grundy County, has just celebrated his one hundred and tenth birthday. He expects to live another decade. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia — Thundershowers Thursday and Friday. Sing Sing Convicts In Mutiny; Plot to Burn Prison Fails OSSINNING, N. Y.. July 24.—Mu tinous convicts. In open rebellion against their keepers, to-day made ar. attempt to destroy the entire Sing Sing prison property by fire. They set fire to the clothing manu facturing building, In which all the shoes, clothing and like articles are made. The fire was extinguished by the prison fire department after it had swept the shoeshop. The entire penal population is be ing kep? under lock in fear of further outbreaks. Factory Supplants Farm as Exporter WASHINGTON, July 24.—How the United States is changing from great exporter in foodstuffs to manu factures is shown in every report is sued nowadays by the Bureau of For eign and Domestic Commerce. The bureau’s latent figures show a growth in exports of manufactures from $468.00.000 in 1903 to $1,200,000,- 000 in the fiscal year Just closed and in manufacturers’ materials from $409,000,000 to $740,000,000. while the exports of foodstuffs remained at d standstill, $510,000,000 having been the value of the exports in that line both in 1913 and 1903. Eugenic Restaurant To Save Babies’ Lives NEW YORK. July 24.—“Thousands of children are brought into the w'orld handicapped for life because their mothers were 111-nourished before they were bom.” Miss Mabel A. Parker thus tersely explains w'hy she has embarked on one of the most novel eugenic experiments that has yet been made In this country —a prenatal restaurant. This restaurant, which wdll be con ducted solely for women who are ex pected to give birth to a child within six months, will be opened in two weeks. HOTEL ELEVATOR HIS SCHOOL OF AVIATION Ban Goes On the Shipping of Arms to Either Huerta or His Foes. Love Affair Drives Mme.Curie from Paris WARSAW, July 24.—Mme. Curia, discoverer, w’lth her husband, of radium, will return to her home here soon to remain permanently. She will have charge of a radiological laboratory. Another reason for her return is the gossip connecting her name with that of Prof. Langevin, of the College of France, whose wife sued him for separation. Letters between Mme. Curie and Prof. Langevin became public. Metropolitan Gets Abbey's ‘King Lear' NEW YORK. July 24.—The Metro politan Museum of Art has come Into possession of “King Lear," one of the most beautiful and noted of the paint ings of Edwin A. Abbey. The picture formerly was a part of the collection of the late George McCulloch, whicn was sold in London this spring. It was bought by Knoedler for $25,200 and sold to George A. Hearn, who presented it to the museum. Guardsman Shoots Escaping Comrade INDIANAPOLIS, July 24.—Na tional Guardsman Walter Dow'ell, of Madison, Ind., is near death to-day from a bullet fired "by Sergeant Edwin Ball, Company H. of Indianapolis, w f hen Dowell attempted to escape after being arrested on suspicion of smuggling liquor into the National Guard camp at Fort Benjamin Har rison. Ball is held by the police on a charge of assault with intent to kill, pending the result of Dowell s wound. WASHINGTON. July 24.—Presi dent Wilson has determined that no faction in the present Mexican revo lution shall obtain arms or ammuni tion from the United States and that neutrality must be observed in its strictest sense. This was the inter pretation of the neutrality laws de cided upon by the President after conferences with Senator Bacon and Representative Flood, chairman of the two Congressional committees on foreign relations. While the Mexican rebels have been getting no arms heretofore, these developments mean that the Huerta administration will be de prived of the privilege previously ac corded the Madero Government and that the United States will treat all sides alike in the present dispute. The situation was precipitated by the repeated complaints of constitu tionalists and their sympathizers in this country that if the United States did not virtually assist the Huerta Government by selling it munitions of war, a termination of hostilities would be possible. Both Houses Favorable. | Sentiment in favor of a new policy I grew in Congres** to such extent that j to-day a canvass was made of the j committees in both Houses dealing ! with foreign relations. It was found there would be little objection to repealing the joint reso- ; lution of March 14, 1912, which gives the President discretionary power to prohibit exportations of arms or mu nition** of war to countries w'here do mestic violence existed, but permits him to allow the legally constituted Government of any country to buy war supplies as usual. Senator Bacon, however, reiterated as he left the White House that the Huerta administration could not be considered a legitimate successor of the Madero regime or a legally con stituted government. To Treat Both Sides Alike. The constitutionalists representa tives here had protested to the State Department that 'nasmuch as the Huerta government had not been recognized, It ought not to obtain arms. This construction of the case found favor in official circles, and while the repeal of the resolution of March 14, 1912, was considered by ad ministration officials as one way of equalizing conditions, It was decided that the same purpose could be ob served by denying ammunition to all factions. There nevertheless is a firm feeling in Congress in favor of lifting the em bargo on arms and giving both sides an equal opportunity to equip them selves. This sentiment finds favor especially among those who believe that the Carranza rebels have public opinion behind them in Mexico, and if given the arms with which to supply their large unequipped forces, the revolution w'ould end speedily in their favor. For the present, however, the ad ministration wll issue orders to its agents everywhere to kep arms from entering the rebellion ?torn country. Millionaire Youth Works for $9 a Week BOSTON, July 24 —Elisha S. Con verse, a 19-vear-old boy*with a mil lion dollars in his own name, with a 50-foot sailing boat, saddle horses and a motor car, is working as an ordinary “hand” in a rubber shoe fac- 1 ?ry. Ho earns $9 per week. Arnold Believed to Be Conferring With Judge Roan Regarding Delay Until Fall. Asks Receiver After Tilt With Partner Georgs O. Speir, stockholder In the A. A. Smith Cotton Products Com pany In the Grant building, has filed a petition in the Superior Court ask ing for a receiver for the company on the grounds that disagreements be tween him and A. A. Smith have made it impossible for them to con tinue to do business together. He declares that up to 30 days ago the company was earning $20,000 a year. CARRY CANES FOR MASHERS. BOSTON, July 24 — Members of the Women’s Homestead Association here carry canes and w’histles as pro tection against mashers. The whistles are to attract attention. ‘ ‘I got a bank with 4 pennies an da dime. That ought to buy a good machine, ’ ’ he says. in the elevator of Hotel Ansley, be cause he wants to be an aviator. Robert figures it thin way: There isn’t much use In buying and run ning an airship if you are going to get sick every time you get a few feet up in the air; the thing to do, therefore, is to get used to being j off the ground—and then buy your airship. “I don’t like to ride in elevators,” he says, "but I’ve got to. I’m going to be an airship flyer w'hen I grow up, and I’ve got to get used to being off the ground. It Is working fine, too I can go up to the twelfth floor now without getting dizzy. I’ll make a dandy aviator. I'll bet!” The youngster has become a fa miliar figure to attaches and guest.-* of the hotel. Every morning, as soon as he can slip away from Mrs. Pettit and his nurse, he drags his little chair Into the elevator and sits solemnly behind the operator. He manifests great interest in the operation of the lift, and his greatest joy comes when he is allowed to hold the levers and make believe he Is operating the car. Robert says he is going to have an airship as soon as he Is sure he can fly without getting sick. “I’ve got a bank at home with four pennies and a dime in it,” he said. •'I guess that'll get a pretty good air ship. If It ain’t enough. Mama will give me as much more as I nee.d.” Champ Clark Won't Let His Wife Fly WASHINGTON, July 24.— The yearning of Mrs. Champ Clark, wife of the Speaker of the House, to en gage In an aviation flight, while visit ing Representative and Mrs. Baker, at Wildwood, N. J.. received a setback when the Speaker flatly refused to let her go. “I never talk back to Champ,” she said. He is master of his own house and so 1 guess 1 won't fly just now.” MARQUETTE, MICH., July 24.— James A. Crune, Sheriff of Houghton County, wired Governor Ferris to day asking that 2,000 State troops be sent to the district in which the great copper strike is located. He says he Is unable to cope wltn the situation because of the wide area included. The strike takes In territory 28 miles. The Sheriff declares the strikers have begun to destroy property ani that the lives of men who are not in sympathy with the strike have been threatened. Nc violence, however, has been re ported. Loaded With Meals, He Defies the World CHICAGO. July 24.—Impelled * by five meals at once, Juluius Johnson to-day staled the walls of a three- story fiat building, armed himself with bricks pulled from the chimney and defied the world. At the station Johnson’s relatives came for him. They said he had pur chased a 21-meal ticket at a restau rant and just before his escapade had eaten five meals, one after the other. Jury panels for the trial of jeo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagau, were to be drawn by Superior Judge John T. Pendelton Thursday morning, according to all indica tions. Deputy Sheriff Plennie Miner, who was instructed by Judge L. S. Roan to have the .jury drawn Thursday morning unless he received instructions to the contrary, stated that he would take the jury boxes be fore Judge Pendleton and ask him to draw 144 names—12 pan els. Although Judge Roan had not de*» elded to postpone the trial Thursday morning It. was by no means certain that some move in this direction would not be made during th© day. Reuben R. Arnold, Frank’s attorney, asked Judge Pendleton to defer draw ing the Jury until he heard from him Thursday morning after he had con ferred with Judge Roan. Attorney Arnold could not be located in the city and It was understood he had gone to Covington, where Judge Roan was holding court, to orge that the trial be postponed until the cooler months of fall. Dorsey Must Be Consulted. Prosecuting Attorney Hugh M. Dorsey announced he would fight vigorously any move to postpone the trial without first giving him a hear ing on the subject. It developed Thursday morning that there were two rather ruffled chiefs at the police department the previous afternoon when Jim Conley was sneaked from his cell in the sta tion over to th© Tower without their permission and without their knowl edge. Chief Lanford said: “This will never happen again.” Chief Beavers would not talk of the incident, but ’s understood to have told the two detectives, Starnes and Campbell, that if the negro was takbn from the police station again he (Beavers) proposed to be in on it. There was a commotion at police headquarters Wednesday afternoon, when it was found that Conley had been spirited away to confront Newt Lee in the Tower. Chief Lanford knew nothing of the circumstance un til he was Informed by The Georgian Even then he insisted that Conley was in his cell. Then Detectives Explain. He went to Chief Beavers’ office to see if permission had been given there for Conley’s removal. Beavers said he did not know Conley was gone. Station Sergeant Holcomb was ap pealed to. He said he had not been notified that the prisoner was to be taken away. Turnkey Bayne, the last resort, was asked to explain the mys terious disappearance of Conley. Ha informed Chief Beavers that Detec tives Starnes and Campbell had taken him about a half hour before. The Chief, to satisfy himself that Conley was still In custody, made a personal visit to the jail. When Starnes and Campbell later were in conference with the Chief they told him that they had said nothing about their intention because neither Chief Beavers nor Chief Lan ford were in the station at the time. ELBERT CORN SHOW OCT. 17. ELBERTON.—One hundred and seventy-nine are enrolled on the books of the Boys’ Corn Club of El bert County. It has been decided to hold the exhibit of the club at Elber- ton on Friday, October 17*