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« CIRCULA TION of the SUNDAY AMERICAN OVER 100,000 The■ Atlanta Georgianievening' EDITION Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Usc for Results ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 191T Copyright. 1908. O By The Georgian Co. v-'xLJN X o. rpo PAT NO WHO SLEW DEC WEARING BOOSTER BUTTONS NOW i GREAT FAD IN ATLANTA SOCIETY -!•••!• +•+ •!•••}- *!•••!• v#4- +•*!• •I- • -!-• v *1- • •!* v d* • *S* + • Expect to Arrest Express Robber To-day +*4* +•+ 4.*+ +•+ •!••+ +•+ +••! +•* i.j. -j- • MISS FRANCES WILLIAMS. - - * ' HHMi <’ •••• ?• SHOOTS AT THIEF STEALING AUTOMOBILE mm# »l c *jf{ w y mm*. fe. ‘ ‘ ' i Iv? ... I |L ' ‘ ' U jj| F1THER PURSUES RUNMIlltY GIRL And Persuades Her to Leave Montgomery and Return to Atlanta Home. jn*r<rh«lm* Fr»«nan, ths pretty <!an*t>ter of Mr. and Mrs. ^At Hyman, of Attanta. Is bark at ther parent*, after flg-ur- r that, had them ntar- tyjW^TMteted OTtth anxiety. 351* youns gtrl disappeared from tansa SatrrrAay. Her father and fgoQuH Instituted an Immediate jggsch. {They thought she might havo fcaoMBpaoiled a friend from Montgom- frf fcaclt to the Alabama city. They *Jr*4 th» Montgomery police. De- locrtlves Payne and Cloud visited the heme of the young woman, who had Just returned from Atlanta, and con- f rmed the suspicions of Mr. and Mrs. yeoman by discovering little Miss Freeman comfortably esconced there and not at all willing to return home. Mr. Freeman was notified and ar rived at Montgomery at 10:50 Sun day. His daughter meanwhile was taken to the police station. She met him with a storm of protestations against coming back to Atlanta, scold ing him severely for following her to Montgomery. The father argued and remon strated with her and finally persuad ed her that the strictness with which ane was treated by her mother at home was in reality for her own good A reconciliation was effected and and daughter left Ihe station They returnon 10 Atlanta onini; train over the Atlanta -.Vest Point Railroad. L UTS m FOR SAFE LOOTER Detectives Work on Theory That Guilty Man Will Squander $72,000 Express Booty. father together. on the ev With the advent of the new booster buttons bearing: the picture of one of Atlanta's prettiest society girls, “boosting for Atlanta” promises to become as great a fad as the tango, the turkey trot and the hundred and one other things with which society whiles away its time. Xlundreds of Atlanta society per sons have taken to wearing the but tons, and they have developed into enthusiastic boosters for the Gate City. Miss Frances Williams, of No. 35 West North avenue, one of Atlanta's prettiest girls, was one of the first to take up the new' fad. She obtained a button shortly after they were re ceived at The Georgian office and has worn it proudly and enthusiastically ever since. She has enlisted many of her friends in the cause of "500.000 people for Atlanta.” and as a result of her efforts the booster button adorning the girls of Atlanta nas become one of tne common spectacles of Peach tree street. Almost as many girls as men ar«* wearing the/11 now. and they are as enthusiastic as their brothers and sweethearts over the new’ movement. Thousands of the buttons have been given but to firms and business men. but there are still plenty left for distribution. Organisations, firms and others who desire to get some of the buttons and aid in the good w'ork of boosting Atlanta can have them b\ waiting t«» The Georgian or lloarst s Sunday American and tell- i ing how nun.' they need. Thej will I be sent at once to any address. Qli HOBSON AIDES Miss Julia Lathrop and Four Other United States Employees Called From Stump in Alabama. WASHINGTON. Sept. 15.—rresi- dent. Wilson has wielded the "big stick” on Miss .Julia Lathrop. head of the children’s bureau of the De partment of Labor, and four employ ees of the Department of Commerce, who are alleged to have been stump ing Alabama in the interest of Repre sentative Richmond Pearson Hobson, candidate for Senator. All have been recalled from that Slate as a result of protests made by friends of Representative Clayton, recently appointed by Governor O’Neal of Alabama to succeed the late Senator Johnston. It is understood that the protests charged that these Government em ployes had violated the executive order against “pernicious political ac tivity.” If the charges are substan tiated they undoubtedly will be rep rimanded by the President. Representative llobson is cam paigning on a personal platform of woman suffrage and total prohibi tion and is an advocate also of anti child labor legislation, which has the approval of Miss Lathrop. The four employees of the Depart ment of Commerce were detailed by Secretary Red field to deliver com mercial lectures. It is said they have devn*ed most of their time to commendation of Representative llobson s Wfork and career. Detective Harry Scott. Atlanta agent of the Pinkertons, said Mon day that the hunt for the daring robber who looted the Southern or the j Adams Express Company of $72.00b j in transit from New York to Savan nah and South Georgia banks had ! narrowed dow'n to two or three ex press employees, who were being kept j under special surveillance. He an ticipated an arrest during the day. The centering of suspicion on par ticular employees has not caused the detectives to relax their vigilance. On the contrary, the closest sort of a watch is being kept on every em ployee of both companies who by the most remote possibility might have been connected w’ith the bold theft. The instant one of these men emerges nto the “white lights" and begins spending money freely he will be arrested as the man who stole the $72,000, according to Special Agen! Weaver, of the Southern Express, who returned to Savannah Monday from a trip to Florence. "We expect to make an arrest anv time now,” said Weaver. “Every man who could have possibly been con nected with the robbery is under sur veillance. Every other man is elimi nated. It rests wMth two or three. “We are just waiting for him to show up. and then we will get him He can’t hold out much longer. There Is either a woman back of it or tie lure of the white lights. It is always that way. He will remain under cov?r for a little while, but he will soon show his hand. It is human nature for a man with that much money to put some of it into circulation, par ticularly with the kind of man wno would come by it in that way.” At every point along the l ne to-day special agents are either riding v lounging around boarding houses an 1 little depot hotels where the messen gers hang out. Sleepy-eyed agents as they come in from their runs are taken to the office of General Man ager Hockadav and closely interr •- gated The search ba« not cju’Lheti G/i< oi:, aitiio ^h thw princi pal activity is at the New York end of the line The remote possibility, as the offi cials term it, of an> messenger having secured the money, at first over looked, Is being thoroughly gone n <. Could anyone have duplicate seals to fasten the wire into the little lead pel lets, the combination to the safe made into the express car, a duplicate of the key kept by the agent at the des tination. and a duplicate of the key that unlocks the second lid to the trunk, this key beine kept under the first lid in a sealed envelope, the rob bery might have been made in tran sit. The officials regard this as high ly Improbable, but they are investi gating such a possibility fully. Rockefeller's Auto Party Put Off Public Square of Village CLEVELAND. OHIO. Sept 15 — I John D. Rockefeller and a party of j five were put off the public square in ; Redford. where they went to attend the Bedford “home-coming celebra tion. The oil magnate and his party were driven in a big red automobile to *he main street curb on the public square, but a constable quickly ordered them away, as vehicles are not allowed :« stand in the square. The car was driven into a side street. Rockefeller shook hands with Fred B. Senter, president of the Franklin Oil Company, and then the machine was driven away. Rockefel ler declining, with a shake of the head. Mayor W. B. Yost s invitation to remain. Treats 395 Rabies Patients; All Saved PARIS. Sept. 15.—Professor Elie Metchnikoff. of the Pasteur Institute, j considers the reported discovery of ; the microbe of hydrophobia by Dr Hideyo Noguchi, of ihe Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, of New York, to be of great medical impor tance. He remarked to-day that not one death had occurred among the 395 persona treated at the institute in 1912. This is the second time this record has been made in 27 years BOLD RAID Boyd Perry Drives Motor Robber From Garage—Believed Mem ber of Daring Band. Woman Tries Suicide: Saved by Little Girl SAVANNAH. Sept. 15.—Mrs. S. E. Johnson. No. 105 President street, is in a critical condition at the Savan nah Hospital to-day as a result of taking carbolic acid in an attempt at suicide. A little girl in ihe house, hearing Mrs. Johnson crying, went to her room Just as she raised the vial :o her lips. She knocked it from the woman's hand before she had swal lowed a large quantity and summoned the ambulance. Poetess Defends Girls Who Smoke The operations of the gang of au tomobile thieves that has be*»n In festing Atlanta for the past two weeks were checked early Monday morning when Boyd Perry, No. 589 N. Boule vard, general agent of the National Surety Company, opened fire with a revolver on a burglar w ho was try ing to run hlR automobile out of the garage. The bullet missed the in truder. and put a hole in the gasoline tank of the automobile, but it did the work. The attempt made to steal Mr. Per ry's car was one of the boldest the gang has made. Mr. Perry was awakened shortly after midnight by a noise in his garage, and looking out pf a window’ saw a man trying to force open the door. Failing in that, the burglar went to a window at the side of the garage, raised the sash and climbed in. Mr. Perry secured his revolver and went outside. As he approached tho garage he heard th % 1 nirglar trying to open the door from the inside. Mr. Perry fired a shot through the door of the garage, and then opened the door and rushed In. As he entered the man scrambled through the win dow and escaped. Call Officers Anderson and Watson made an investigation, but failed to find any trace of the burglar. The police think the man is a member of the gang that has been stealing auto mobiles from garages and from in front of office buildings for several weeks. CAMBRIDGE. MASS, Sept. 15. - | Miss Amy Lowell poetess *.nd sister of Harvard's presid*. nt. has rushed to I the defense of "my Lady Nicotine,” and in an interview to-day warmly defended cigarette smoking by girl«. "1 wish to deny the recent report | that I smoked cigars" said Miss (Lowell to-day. "Cigarette smoking, I’nowevar is differ-, n; '('her' is nj (reason why a woman should not j smoke cigarettes if she so desires." ( Austria Likeiy to Have Fair Exhibit Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. j VIENNA, Sept 15.—Although the j Austrian Government has not yet re- j piled to the United States’ Invitation 1 to participate officially in the Pa- j ma Fair, there is a widespread'move ment among the industrialists of Aus tria-Hungary in favor of sending in hibits 10 San Francisco. Many applications for space have been received already. Taken to Hospital in Car That Struck Her Roxie Carmichael, a negress. was injured Monday morning when she was run down at Peachtree and Can streets by an automobile driven by W. P. Wash. No. 335 North Jacksou street. w r ho was on his way to Union Station to catch a tra ! n for Athene where he is a student at the unlver- Mr. Wash took the woman to Grady Hospital. Physicians state she is ar seriously injured. Mr. Wash reported the accident to the police. No case was made u„Jinst him Dairy Agent Protests Slaughter of Calves if the Southeast is to become the great cattle-growing section tt should, in view of its natural advantages, farmers must quit selling their fe male and immature stock, declares I)r. C. M Morgan, dairy agent of the Southern Railway He also sounds t warning against » continuation <f the wholesale deportation of cattle from the South. "Farmers should keep their heifers and build up the quality of their stock by the use of pure bred bulls of dairy or beef type as desired.” nays Dr. Morgan. "This im the only way to increase the number or the quality of cattle in the Southeast. The scarcity of cattle is world-wide, and it will never he possible to secure enough pure L cd cattle to develop the indus try in the Southeast.” Rich Man Is Victim Of Woman Assassin Bride Here for Lipton If He Wins Race? Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. Sept. 15. —At a banquet in honor of the competitors In the motor boat races Sir Thomas Dewa« made an announcement which was grated with much cheering. He declared he had reason to be lieve that if Sir Thomas Lipton brought back the America Gup he would also bring back an American bride. LEXINGTON. Sept. 13. J. H. Birchfleid. aged 30. a prominent lum berman. was fatally shot by an un identified assassin, said to be. a wom an. concealed in a house on Quick- ►and (’teek. Breathhitt t’ounty. Birchfleid was brought to the hos pital here. Diary of Honeymoon Used to Win Decree ST. LOUIS. Sept. 15.—Three weeks after her marriage Mrs. Charles Huf- schmidt began to keep a diary for a divorce suit which she anticipated bringing She exhibited ihe record L> show cruel treatment. Dr. Hall Delights Auditorium Audience Atlanta music lovers heard one of the best programs of the year at the Auditorium Sunday afternoon wnen Frederick Hal!, of Haddon Heights, N. J., gave an organ recital, one of the series under the auspices of the At lanta Music Festival Association in its quest for a successor to Dr. Percy J. Starnes Two of his own compositions were played, “Rouen Reminiscence” and “The Gettysburg Reunion,'' and both were beautiful and magnificently ren dered. One of the largest audiences of the year heard Mr. Hall, than ever before. The figures are based on compari sons of union wage scale agreements, trade union reports and working com pacts in central cities throughout the United States from 1907 to 1912. The bakers fared best ;their wages were increased 22 per cent in the six years, while their working day was shortened nearly one fifth. Stone cutters and newspaper compositor.' are the lowest In the scale In the matter of reduced hours. Tries to Kill Entire Family; Three Dead MEMPHIS. Sept. 15. Kd Baxter, a laborer, separated from his wife, Jes sie Baxter, went to her father's home early this morning and after being ref lined to see her killed ilenry Smith, the father-in-law; Mrs. Edna Smith, mother-in-law, and'Oscar Smith, the brother-in-law. Baxter used a gun. lie escaped. His wife was not Injured. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia—Rain Monday and Tuesday New Milk Record For Jersey Cows HOUGHTON. MICH.. Sept. 15.—A new world's milk record for Jersey cow » has been recorded by Eminent! Bess, owned by the Roy Cross Farm, of Houghton County. Michigan. Her yearly record under the supervision of the Michigan Agricultural College, shows a production of 18.783 pound* of milk, testing 1,132 pounds 9 ounces of butter. The former Jersey record, held by Jacobs Irene, was 17.258 pounds of milk. The new record exceeds also the Guernsey breed record, held by Spotswood Daisy Pearl, by 179 pounds of milk. Tift College Expects Record Attendance FORSYTH, Sept. 15.—Thia weak Forsyth again will be alive with col lege girls. On Tuesday the Bessie Tift girls will arrive; on Wednesday they matriculate for the session, and on Thursday ^opening exercises will be held in the college auditorium. Tne principal addresses will be delivered by the Rev. H. H. Shell, of Douglas, and Dr. E. C. Dargan, of Macon. The demand for reservations in the college dormitories has been greater than in any former year. Conductor Is Held For $16,000 Robbery GREENVILLE, S. C., Sept. 15.— J. B. Tipton, a Southern Railway conductor, who had been held on a charge of alleged complicity in the $16,000 robbery at Parr Shoals, on September 5, was taken to Columbia last night by an officer of the Co lumbia police department. Tipton stoutly denies all knowledge of the hold-up. He was arrested by Burns detectives from Atlanta. Another Big Slide Goes Into Culebra Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PANAMA, Sept. 15.—Another slide on the east hank of Culebra cut near Gold Hill cast 200 cubic yards of roc* and earth into the canal bed. It is not believed that this slide will delay the flooding of the cut in Oc tober. but it i! expected that other slides may follow, . s several milllan cubic yards of earth are in motlo'l on Gold Hill. Schumann-Heink's Son Weds Waitress PATERSON. Sept 15.—Walter Schumann-Heink, son of the famous opera contralto, was married in Chi cago July 25 to Mim Daisy Marcus, until recently a waitress in the res taurant kept by her father. William Marcus, in this city. The news of the marriage did not become public until to-day Young Sohumann-Heink is an ac countant. Priest Tells How He Slew Girl, Dismembered Body and Threw Pieces Into Hudson River, NEW YORK. Sept. 15.—Hans Schmidt, aged 32, who officiated aa a pHest at St. Joseph's Catholio Church, tills city. Is in Jail here to day, the self-confessed slayer of beautiful Anna A uni tiller, aged 22, w hose torso was found In the Hudson River, and whose murder was one of the most shocking In the criminal history of New York City. While Schmidt sits calmly In his cell, announcing in a matter of fact way that he Is ready to pay the pen alty for his crime, the distinguished members of the Catholic clergy here, piecing together Schmidt’s rather dis connected story of his past, are mak ing efforts to lift the hidden pages of Schmidt's early history in an effort to prove that not only is the man in sane, but that he was thrown into jail in Europe as an imposter and that he never was ordained as a priest. Through as clever a bit of det*ctiv« work as the police department here has ever experienced, suspicion final ly directed itself upon Schmidt. Tha officers could hardly credit their con clusions and were placed in a delicate position as to how to approach the priest. Finaly, however!, they went to the rectory after midnight Sunday, summoned the priest from his room where he was preparing to retire and got him down to the reception room. Photo Breaks Him Down. Hardly had the priest stepped int<i the room when Inspector Faurot. wav ing the picture of the murdered girl before the priest’s eyes, demanded: "Vherr is that gir!'’” Schmidt gave one quick, giace at the picture, staggered and almost fell. Then he said: "I killed her; I killed her because I loved her. Then I drank her blood.” Schmidt was ordered to dress and accompany the officers to the s»ation. He wanted to go alone to his room, but the detectives insisted upon ac- companying him. Schmidt asked per mission then to go to the bathroom, but he was searched first and a razor was found on his person. “What were you going to do with that kill yourself?” Schmidt was asked. “Yes," he answered calmly; “I made up my mind to kill myself if I ever was arrested. But I never thought I would be.” Schmidt after being taken to the police station, made a confession that covered about 40 pages. He said that he met Anna Aumuller about two years before, when he was connected with the St. Boniface Church where Miss Aumuiler was employed as a servant girl. "I became infatuated with her.” de clared Schmidt, “and decided to rent a fiat for her.” lie rented a tiny place at No. <18 Broadhurst avenue, pal’d a months rent m advance, bought a few dollars' worth of furniture and established the girl there. Hi* Story of Slaying. Schmidt’s confession, in concrete form, follows: "I .net Anna Aumuller two years ago at the parish house of St. Boni face Church. She was employed a« a vervain there. I was attracted to her by her beauty, r became infatuated with her p loved h*r. “I kllifeti her been OKI I lov ed •*<»