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VOL. 1. NO. 3.'). Copyright, 1913, by The Georgian Company. Appeal Made That Speculators Are Making Fortune* st the Ex pense of the Consumer—‘Buy No More Until Cheap,’ Is Order. Letters and Telegrams to Lead ing Cities of the United States Start War on Both the Fresh and Cold Storage Products. NEW TOP.K, Nov. 29.—The Na tional Executive Committee of the Housewives’ league has called upon its members throughout the United States to boyoof eggs until prices come down. Tbe appeal* which is being sent by letter and ▼/Ire to the chief offh ers of local Housrwives' Leagues in all of the important cities in the land, says. The situation in the egg mar ket is a«nte and chaotic. The consumer is being exploited. Aft er careful deliberation the Na tional Executive Committee of the House wives’ League calls upon its members and consumers in these United States to protest against the present manipulation by ceas ing to buy eggs until conditions change. Notify all members. Re port to National Executive Com mittee. Give wide publicity. Watch daily press. JENNIE DEWEY HEATH, National President. AGNES B. GRIFFIN, National Secretary. Boycott Fresh Eggs, Too. The boycott applies- to all kinds of •ggs, both fresh and storage. It is the first thing of the kind ever at tempted by the Housewives’ League, and It is the first national anti-egg crusade in the history of the trade. Cleveland and other cities have had local egg and butter boycotts, but there has been no nation-wide move. The Housewives’ league, with its 700,000 members, has large organiza tions in New York, Chicago, Balti more, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pitts burg and Washington, and the boy cott, it is expected, will center mostly at the big cities, though the appeal is made to all members, everywhere. The National Executive Committee has forwarded to United States At torney General McReynolds, at Wash ington, for his action, an alleged let ter from "Silent Sam” Wets, a Chi cago egg buyer, to The New York Produce News, in which Wetz is rep resented as saying he is not satisfied with a profit of $840 a car on storage eggs, and so will hold back from the market the rest of his stock until the price advances to a point where he can clean up $1,200 a car. In tne letter reference is made to Joseph and Pharaoh and the com famine in Egypt. Armours in the Combine. It is reported in the trade that Wetz and his partner had 140 cars of stor age eggs, 21 of which they sold to the Armours, and the balance they are holding for a rise in price. Thu Ar mours keep their eggs until they, too, can get what profit they require. They have been accused ot controlling the market for eggs and poultry, as well as for meat and meat products. “We have been driven into our boy cott,” Mrs, Heath said last night, “by the egg speculators, whom we have not been able to overcome in any other way, and our final resolve was actually brought about by the singu lar discovery I Hjade yesterday. -As is known, the Housewives’ League has been trying to force eggs out of cold storage at a price which would enable retailers to sell them at 30 cents a dozen. We soon found that many retailers were cheating their customers by selling storage eggs un der the guise of fresh eggs at prices ranging up to 50 cents a dozen. Speculators Make Fortunes. "The speculators make fortunes out of e"s s and the public has to pay the consequences in the increase in the cost of living. There are right now vast quantities of eggs in storage out of which several different sets of food gamblers have made fortunes.’’ There were, November 1, over 1 800 000 cases of eggs (54,000,000 doz en— 648.000,000 eggs) in storage in the public warehouses at New York, Chi cago lersev City and other chief points. This did not include millions of dozens held in private coolers by the -Beef Trust" and by the big com mission houses here and elsewhere, many of which are active speculators in eggs and butter. Pope Says Tango Is Immoral: Forbids Dance to Catholics Sift Skirts and Transparent Gowns Also Under Ban of Several Bishops. Special Cabie to The American. ROME, Nov. 29.—The Vatican, replying to Inquiries from several bishops, seek ing advice regarding the tango and other modem dances, declares the tango must be considered Immoral and there fore forbidden to Catholics. Women wearing slit skirts or trans parent gowns have been forbidden by several bishops to attend church ser vices. Woman Lawyer Acts As Cook’s Prosecutor WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—Women lawyers frequently try cases in the District of Columbia courts, but sel dom do they display the militancy shown to-day by Mrs. Stephen Lyd- dane, who acted as an assistant pros ecuting attorney against a negro cook charged with stealing $28 from her mistress. After Mrs. Lyddane had spent con siderable time examining a witness she said: "You’re the biggest liar that ever set foot in that box.” Mrs. Lyddane obtained a convic tion. ‘Decollete’ in Newest Style Wanders Far Special Cable to The American. PARIS, Nov. 29.—The decolef.te leg has just been introduced by sev-' eral ultra-fashionable women. Wom en have appeared at the theaters this week wearing gowns daringly slashed which reveal that the accustomed silk stockings are lacking. Even at his season this might be accepted as a return to the fashion of Eve. But some of the ladies have had dainty arabesques painted on their nether limbs, and one wore a string of diamonds caught below her knee. Armless Man Uses Leg to Save Canoeist CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Stanley Mar tin has no arms, but he saved Henry Carlson, employed in Vincennes ave nue, who was drowning in the lake. Carlson was paddling a canoe a quar ter of a mile off Thirty-seventh street when the wind capsized his craft. He swam to the pier at Thirty-fifth street, but the cold and the exertion had worn him out, and he was ready to sink when Martin put his leg over the side of the pier ar.d pulled him out. ‘Ad’ Finds Mother Lost for 44 Years CUMBERLAND, MD., Nov. 29.— Through a newspaper advertisement, Benjamin Betts, of Keokuk, Iowa, and his mother, Mrs. Margaret Betts, Mc Keesport. Pa., have been reunited after forty-four years. Betts was separated from his moth er after the Civil War, when he was 9. He had. kept up a search for years without result. He is 153 and his mother 75. Betts went West and became wealthy. * Films Help Elect Woman to Board INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 39.—Woman suffragists are jubilant over the fact that in this city November 4 a notable victory was won for the cause when Mrs. Julia Belle Tuteweiler was elected to the office of School Commissioner. She reveived about 3,000 more votes than her nearest competitor. The Board of School ‘Commissioners in Indianapolis is elected on a non partisan basis, and is open to women in the State. Prison for Forger Son of Millionaire SPRINGFIELD, MO., Nov. 29.—B. J. Gifford, son of a millionaire, was brought here and placed In the Greene County jail. Gifford had violated a parole and will be taken to prison to-morrow. During a month of liberty, it is al leged Gifford forged a draft for $2,100 on a country bank and later deposited the draft in the Bank of Marshfield, taking a certificate of deposit, on which he obtained goods at a grocery. 12,000 Mixed Drinks Bring Divorce Suit CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—Twelve thousand drinks, ranging from simple mixed pota tions to fancy concoctions, is the record which Mrs. John Barry Sears posted up against her husband in five years of married life. Mrs. Sears, who is suing for divorce, said Mr. Sears started his conviviality during the honeymoon and kept it up with few lapses from his high-pressure standard. TO GIVE LIFE TO Will Soon Sail for Holy Land, Where He Will Resume Work •for Humanity. HIS CAMPAIGN WORLD-WIDE Will Make Work of the Soup Kitchens and Pasteur Insti tute Much Broader. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Nathan Straus will devote his future exclu sively to humanitarian work. His son, Nathan Straus, Jr., last night said his father had withdrawn from R. H. Macy & Co., not to devote his energies to other large financial proj ects, but to carry out long-cherished philanthropic plans. Mr. Straus will make a \vorld-w r ide campaign to improve social condi tion®. He will strive to bring about the universal adoption of pasteuriza tion of all milk fed to infants, which he has already successfully carried out in many places. His first work will be done in Palestine early in the coming year. His Wife III. Mr. Straus, because of the illness of his wife, has of late withdrawn from all hut the most urgent business af fairs and remained at his home, No. 27 West Seventy-second street. Mrs. Straus is rapidly improving, and it is expected that she will be able to sail for Europe early In January with Mr. Straus and their son. “For the present, before I again enter business, I shall devote myself to assisting my father,” said young Mr. Straus. “In particular, my fa ther’s enterprises in Palestine ne-d more careful attention. Work in Holy Land. “I shall accompany him, and shall remain in the Holy Land several months to extend tha work of the Nathan Siraus Relief Bureau, which operates soup kitchens: the Inter national Health Bureau, and the Pasteur Anti-Hydrophobia Institute, all of which have been established by my father. •‘Mv father has spoken to me for at least ten years about some day mak ing a world-wide campaign, urging the universal adontion of pasteuriza tion of all milk fed to infants.” Tango Made Part of Her Wedding March CHICAGO. Nov. 29.—Miss Florence Eisendratli was married to-day to L. Monteflore Stein on the Art Floor at the Blackstone Hotel. .Some said it was the finest "tango wedding” in history. At the sound of the wedding march a couple were seen dancing at the head of the roped aisle. They rushed for ward and backward as though wings were on their heels. They were not awed by the solemn strains of the music. They were Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle dancing. ‘"The Castle Walk.” Close behind, the bridal couple and their attendants followed. Speaks 17 Tongues, No English; Is Barred NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Lucien Canale, a Roumanian who arrived recently by the North German Lloyd liner Barbaros- sa from Naples, was held by the Immi gration boarding officer because he ad mitted that he had no relatives or friends in America, and could not talk English. He has, according to his own declara tion, mastered seventeen other lan guages of the world. Including Chinese. But they will do him no good here as an interpreter and he can not translate any into English. Memorial to Twain At Last Completed HANNIBAL, MO., Nov. 29.—The me morial of Mark Twain is completed, Frederick C. Hibbard, of Chicago, the sculptor, announced. Because the season is late the Mark Twain Memorial Commission has decid ed to postpone the unveiling exercises until spring. The monument stands in Rlverview Park, which overlooks the prairies of Illinois and the Mississippi. ‘Healthiest Baby' May Die of Paralysis HARLAN, IOWA, Nov. 29.—Johnnie Tramp, the three-year-old Iowa boy who won the first prize in the baby health contest, has infantile paralysis, and liis condition is critical. There has been no case of the disease in this county, and physicians are at a loss to account for the child's illness. ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1913. PRICE PTVE CENTS. Woman, Clad Only in Fog, Bathes in Surf; 1 Identity a Mystery ! I Residents Christen Her ‘September Morn,' but She Always Proves *n Elusive Nymph. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29.—Clad in nothing- more than the dense fog which has overhung Los Angeles har bor each morning for the last few days, a young woman has created a sensation among the residents of Ter minal Island by her predilection for indulging in an early morning syrf bath. Residents of the island who are early morning risers have christened the young woman the “Early Riser” and "September Morn,” and although many of them have attempted to learn the identity of the fair bather, none has succeeded. Men in Slit Skirts Go Out to Catch Hugger NEW YORK. Nov. 29.—In the Sixth Ward of New Brunswick, N. J., there strolled about the streets last night three slender figures in s.it .skirts, low-brimmed velvet hats with plumes on ’em. and all heavily veiled. While all did their best to walk like perfect ladies, there were many griev ous lapses in these efforts, for the three were slender, muscular young men, and they were out trying to trap a hugger who must be found. In the last five nights i:i the Sixth Ward this hugger has attacked twen ty young women and girls, and a sit uation of actual terror has been cre ated. wherein women fear to go about the streets unescorted. Judge Puts Curb on Extravagant Wives! — DETROIT. Nov. 29.—Compulsory sav- j Ing for a certain class of wives Is to ! be enforced bj’ Judge I*acy, of the j Wayne County Domestic Relations l Court, who says his experience has con vinced him that many couples “go wrong” because some women are ex travagant. In cases where men make complaints of 1his character, Judge Lacy an nounced he will enter an order requiring the husband to pay his wife a specific amount each week and compelling the wife to deposit a specific amount in a bank. Fiance May Keep Engagement Ring PITTSBURG, Nov. 29.— 1 The suit of Miss Jeanette Adler, a young business woman, with beauty and wit, against Paul M. Feldstein, her former fiance, for return of an engagement ring he had given her, was decided by a jury in the Criminal Court. Miss Adler met Feldsteln in January. They become engaged in April and he gave her the ring, which cost $210. Feldstein broke the engagement, seized an opportunity, while she was washing her hands one day and took the ring. Miss Adler sued. Judge and Jury decided in favor of Feldstein. Heirs to Millions Work as Deckhands SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.—Three youthful heirs to millions, ail recent graduates from Eastern universities, worked as common deckhands ,»n board tlie Pacific Coast Company's steamship Congress for a monthly wage of One of the young men was a nephew of George H. Higbee, vice president and manager of the Pacific Coesl Company. The second was the son of Superin tendent Dickey, of the Union Iron Works. Football Skill Saves Pastor From Thugs CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—It was only a few years ago that the Rov. Archie ( ITes- ton. pastor of the Forest Glen Congre gational Church, was a football player. Recently he was overborne by four robbers. The surprise of their attack enabled them to get some small change from his pocket, but before they could get at his watch, the oi}0 thing of value about his person, he had squirmed from under the scrimmage in a way that football players know', and. once on his feet, repulsed further attacks with the straight-arm. ‘Little Women’ Hero, Laurie, Is Physician ROCHESTER, Nov. 29.—The orig inal of Laurie, the hero of Louisa May Alcott’s ‘‘Little Women.” has been discovered here. He is Dr. Frederick L. H. Willis. No. 243 Alex ander street, who claims to have doc umentary evidence in the form of let ters written by Louisa Alcott. Dr. Alcott has begun writing his memoirs, a considerable portion of which are devoted to the Alcott fam ily, whom Dr. W illis knew intimately for a great many years. PARTY || |[|j[] Sleuth’s Raid on Flat a Mystery KILLGIRLJHEN Neice of McMillin Is Puzzled [ +•* *•* +•* / *•+ +•+ +•+ ‘No Quarrel/ Says Tennessee Girl Mrs. John J. Collins, niece of ex-Governor McMillin, of Ten nessee, who says she doesn't know why anyone should pursue her husband. Two Men and Woman Proceed With Gay Plans Despite Driver Friend's Plight. MOB MENACES CHAUFFEUR Police Barely Save Owner of the Machine From Excited Throng Which Gathers. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Driving down Third avenue last night In his auto, Marino Condlto, of No. 2156 j Bathgate avenue, saw Charles Kearn. ‘ Joseph Murphy and Miss Margaret Haran, friends of his, all living at No. 621 East One Hundred, and Eighty- first street. They told Condlto they were bound for a dance at Niblo’s Garden, One Hundred and Seventieth street and Third avenue. He sug gested that they ride in his car. Condlto was not driving fast when. : between One Hundred and Seventy- fourth and One Hundred and Seven ty-fifth streets a little girl darted WAR RACES from the east side of the street. She ran directly in front of his car and was knocked down, two wheels pass ing over her. She was killed Instantly. Almost instantly the streets were filled with a screaming, threatening crowd. Men climbed upon the wheels of the machine in an effort to strike Condlto. Policemen came and fought them back. Then women made a mad rush at the driver. Leave Child Unidentified. While the excitement was at high pitch Kearn, Murphy ard Miss Haran climbed from the car. No effort was made to stop them by the crowds. They gave their names and addresses to the police, boarded a street car and went on to the dance. They did not know the identity of y the mangled child, whose body still lay on the side walk, where a man had carried it. The victim was 9-year-old Kath erine Quinn, of No. 4008 Third ave nue. While the crowd was still press ing about the driver, her mother, Mrs. Katherine Quinn, appeared. She made a desperate effort to get at Condlto, screaming: Mother Inflames Crowd. “You’ve murdered my little girl!” Her cries excited the crowd to a still more dangerous pitch, and when the policemen started with Condlto toward the Tremont station a thou sand persons followed. Among those who were admitted to the station was the gilef-crazed Mrs. Quinn. When Condlto 1 was being arraigned she again leaped at him, screaming. “You mitirdcrer! You killed my little girl!” So frantic was siie that the police had difficulty in controlling her. Cor oner Healy arrived. “Who were those two men and the woman who left your car?” he demanded. Condlto gave the names, and said they had gone on to the dance. “Fine Friend*.” “They are friends of mine,” he added. “Fine friends to desert you at a time like this to go to a dance!” said the Coroner. “But I can get them any time I want them,’ Condito said. “They didn’t mean to desert me.” One of Broadway’s Best Known Men Routed From His Bed at Mid rflffht. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—John J. Col lins, member of a Broadway vaude ville agency a.ftd husband of Dorothy Regel Winsch, niece of ex-Governor McMillin, of Tennessee, has begun an investigation of a raid by six private detectives who entered his apartment at the Dazian, No. 142 West Forty- fourth street. Mr. Collins retired about 9 o'clock. His wife haji been staying at her Atlantic City home, where she went week-ends during the summer, he said. At 12:16 o’clock two detectives who had been about West Forty- seventh street for a week walked into the lower hallway of the hotel and pinioned the arms of the telephone operator, flashing badges. Four other men, including a nephew of Paul Kelly, the gang lead er, walked to the elevator, seized the car and ran it to the eighth flodr, where Mr. Collins sublets an apart ment. 11 “Are you John J. Collins?” the in truders asked when the booking agent opened the door. He gasped a reply, but they passed by him and searched every nook of the two rooms. Then they depart ed and jumped into an automobile. Policemen Involved. Manager Dazian, of the hotel, was called and an employee sounded a po lice whistle, but the detectives had made known their identity to a po liceman, who allowed to to get out of sight. "This is the most mysterious occur rence I can imagine,” Collins said to day. “I was in bed when those big fel lows entered my rooms. I could not hope to overpower them, so I let them go through the place “My w’ife is os surprised as 1 am. She can not understand why apyone should be interested enough in my affairs to pay for private detectives." Mrs. Collins was anxious to hear the details of the raid. She said she thought it was a joke when she heard about it. Have Love Spats. “Quarrels? Yes, we have had love spats, but never anything serious. My husband has had so much traveling to do that I seldom come to New York.” Mrs. Collins was told that after the raid a woman was seen in the hallway of the apartment house talking with one of the detectives. “That must have been some woman living in the house. I can not imagine that any one would try to make things unpleasant for John,” Mrs. Collins re plied. “You see, there is much gossip along Broadway because I have to be away from my husband so much.” Marriage Record. Collins said he had been twice mar ried, but he could not connect any in cident with his or his wife’s former marriages which would cause investi gation. Mrs. Collins, he explained, was first married to F. H. Regel, of St. Louis. When she became a widow she had an allowance of $300 % a month beside her home in Atlantic City. Then she met Louis J. Winsch, to whom she was married in November, 1910. She met Collins, and a. suit for $10,- 000, charging alienation of affection, was brought against him. The suit was withdrawn. After divorcing Mr. Winsch in Illinois and taking a trip to Europe, Mrs. Winsch was married to Collins In Stamford, Conn , and they lived at Atlantic City. Denies Causing Divorce. Collins denied that he was instru mental in winning Mrs. Winsch from her husband. He said he was intro duced to her while she was connected with a vaudeville sketcji, and that after she was separated from her for mer husband, he proposed marriage. Mr. Collins, who was once president of the F. C. Whitney Producing Com pany, is one of the best known agents along Broadway. The detectives who went to his rooms refused to tell who had em ployed them, but they admitted that their client is rated as wealthy. Rebels Revert to Savage State as . They Practically Gain Control of All of Northern Mexico and Execute All the “Traitors." Washington, Inactive Diplomatic ally, Gives El Paso More Sol diers—Carranza Victories May Bring Recognition of U. S, EL PASO, Nov. 29. - Juarea, the Mexican city that lies just across a narrow yellow river from United States soli, is to-day witnessing scenes typical of an nnbrldlsd, bar barous war. The hospitals are filled with wounded soldiers of the rebel army. The dungeons beneath the mu nicipal jail and military forts are crowded with trembling, fearful sol diers of the Mexican Government who are expecting death" at any moment from the rides of their captors. In the valleys and mountains about Juarez, there is comparative calm and quiet to-day. But the suggestion of cruelties, of summary executions of prisoners lurks in the country about the battlefields of two days ago. Rebels Control the North. Ao a. result of that battle the rebel forces are in control practically of all the northern states of the republic. But it seems that with the success of the rebels there is no change of conditions for the better. There is the same story of murder and of high-handed treatment of the prison ers and fugitives. Pancho Villa, lead- er of the rebel troops at Juarez, ad mits having murdered scores of Fed. erals whom his army captured. He said he captured BOO Federals in the battle just outside Juarez Wednesday. He brought only 200 of them to the city. The others, it is plain, faced the firing squad, their hands tied behind their backs, and were shot down for their allegiance to the central gov. ernment. The field on which the battle wad fought bore few evidences of & deadly conflict when it was visited by sight-i seers afterward. In the immediate vicinity of the fight only two graves could be found, and the dsad soldiers therein had their arms tied behind their backs. They, like hundreds ot others probably, were victims of the murderous vengeance of the rebels The soldiers of Villa lost few of their number as a result of ths bat tle with the Federals. A great many rebels were wounded, but the actual fatality was small. The Federals, too, probably lost few men In battle, their losses being the result of the arbitrary execution of prisoners by order of Villa. Victors Act Like Savage*. The rebels, having routed the at tacking Federals. conducted them* selves with all the abandon of sav ages. They tore uniforms and finer, ies from the bodies of their dead ene mies, and returned to Juarez In e joyful, ioudly-yelilng procession, decked in Federal garb There are 6,000 rebel soldiers under General Villa in Juares. Villa says there are other soldiers of his army farther south, and that he la in con trol of Northern Mexico. Tt Is very likely there will be no more attacks on Juarez, after the Federals were repulsed so decisively Wednesday However, the citizen* and soldiers of the United States. Just soroas the river from Juarez, are taking no chances. Orders have come from the War Department, demanding ample protection for BI Paeo and Its cltl- zens, and as a result the Twentieth United States Infantry is oomtng from Fort Douglas. Utah, to guard ;h.t environs of the city. By this arrangement, the two regi ments of cavalry now at BSI Paso, Fort Biles and the suburbs of ftie city may guard every approach to El Paso. In addition, the Fifteenth, just arrived from the Northern posts, and the Second are here, and a a battery of the Fifth Artillery, while Briga dier General Hugh L. Seott, with a. squadron of the Twelfth Cavalry, will come to El Paso as soon as he ha- composed ihe threatened outbreak IS r