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VOL. XII. NO. 104. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1913. 2 CENTS.
HURT SCOUTS CRAWFORD POISON THEORY
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Billion Dollar Demand Made on U. S. Cong ress
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Harrison Heads Southern Railway
Final Action on Currency Bill
Scheduled—Departments
Ask More Money.
WASHINGTON'. Dec. 1.—
Without the usual interest or
ceremony, the new session of
Congress began at noon to-day.
merging trim first session of
the sixty-third Congress, which
ended with the stroke of 12
o’clock.
Speaker C lark called the House 10
order and Vice President Marshall
presided over the Senate.
President Wilson will deliver his
message in person before a joint ses
sion of Congress at 1 o’clock Tues
day.
Many members, who were detained
her- during the summer and auturmi
months, have been slow in returning,
many of them declaring they would
remain away until after January 1, so
as to be at home for the holiday sea
son They anticipated that little im
portant business would be transacted
until after the beginning of the new
year.
Ambitious Program Ahead.
Mtnough the program had not be m
definitely formulated, members looked
forward 1o tackling one of the most
ambitious legislative tasks that any
Congress in a long time has attempt
ed. Here are some of the subjects
the new • ongreas will take up:
Pinal action on the currency bill.
Anti-trust legislation.
Rural credits.
Xaval program.
Passage of a dozen appropriation
bills.
Train safety and safety on the
o*ean.
Regulation of the shipping trust.
Pinal action on the reports of lobby
investigating committees.
The cost of living problem.
Legislation to protect women work
ers.
River and harbor budget.
Legislation looking to the building
of a Government railroad in Alaska.
Mexico Awafta Wilson Action.
Big Appropriation Increase.
The new Congress is called upon
to appropriate over a billion dollars
for the running expenses of the gov
ernment for the coming fiscal year
beginning July 1, 1914, and ending
Line 30, 1915. Estimate* of the cost
of keeping the governmental machin
ery in motion transmitted by Secre
tary of the Treasury MeAdoo to
Speaker Champ Clark, aggregate the
grand total of $1,108,681,777.02.
Appropriations made by Congress
the last regular session totaled
*1-074,305,869.73. The increase is
therefore $34,375,907.29.
The greatest increase in tiie gov
ernment’s expenses the coming year
"'ill be In the Postoffice Department,
"hlch asks $306,953,117, as against
appropriations last year of $285,441.-
Leap to Safety as
Street Cars Crash
On Slippery Tracks
In a smash of street cars early
Monday morning at the corner of
Auburn and Piedmont avenues botn
cars were derailed and the crews had
to leap to safety. The collision
crushed the framework and shattered
the windows of the ears, and severely
shook up a couple of dozen street cat-
employees on an early morning ride
to their work. No one was danger
ously injured, however.
The collision took place at 4:5T>
o'clock, in the midst of a hard down
pour of rain. A car of the \\ a.shing-
ton street line, loaded with motor-
men and conductors from the west
ern part of the city, was proceeding
along Auburn avenue iri the direc
tion of the Jar barn.
•At the junction with Piedmont
avenue, the switch was covered with
water, and either was not turned
prcy:-erl» or was "split” by the car,
which it diverted on 10 the Piedmont
tracks, just at tlie right lime to tear
into a Capitol avenue car. empty save
for the motorman and conductor, on
its way to the end of the line to si-tart
the day's run. The motormen of both
cars leaped to the street as they saw
a crash was inevitable
Hunt Aged Woman
Staying From Home
Police Monday are scouring the
city for Mrs. \V. A. Nelson, an aged
woman, who strayed from the home
of Iter daughter. Mrs. G. X Carroll.
No. 3 39 Hast North avenue. Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Nelson has'suffered a slight
mental derangement, which is as
cribed as the cause of her action. She
was dressed in black, and wore a
shawl over her shoulders. She also
carried a handbag.
I With Eggs at $1 Doz.,
Brazilians ‘Eat One'
TANGO TEA MUSIC TO HAVE REAL
SENTIMENT IN ITS EVERY NOTE
ThPSe popular Atlanta society girls, who are interested in Tango Tea for Empty Stocking
Fund. At the top is Miss Clifford West, while below, from left to rigid, are Miss Helen Thorn
and Miss Emilv Cassin.
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FIGHT 1
Continued on Page 2, Column 3.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 1.—"We don't
eat eggs in Brazil; we eat AN egg,
said Captain ,1. F. Ellison, head of the
Amazon River Steam Navigation
Company.
‘‘Eggs in Brazil cost one dollar a
dozen,” he concluded.
Daylight Bandit Bobs
R.R. Agent in Chicago
CHICAGO. Dec. 1.—A lone bandit,
braving daylight and the chance of en
countering a dozen railroad men, to
day entered the station of the Jvake
Shore in South Chicago, tied and gagged
the agent and escaped with $700.
Pencils Blamed for
Diphtheria Epidemic
SUFFIELD. CONN'.. Dec. 1—Lead
pencil*, distributed and collected each
day in a school here, are blamei for
an epidemic of diphtheria among the
pupils.
Rich Man's Ashes
Scattered in River
NEW YORK. Dec. 1.—The ashes of
Charles W. Presley, a wealthy- con
tractor, were scattered to the winds
from tlie Brooklyn bridge
Presley had requested this action
Octogenarian Keeps
Hat On in Church
PATCHOGUK. N. Y . Dec. 1. - John
Roe Smith, aged 83. reput«*l to be
wealthy, wore his hat during services at
the Congregational Church, despite re
peated requests of the usher that Smith
remove it.
The fate of the new traffic ordi
nance which will be presented to the
City Council Monday afternoon by a
joint committee of the Council and
the Chamber of Commerce has be
come extremely uncertain on account
of a united opposition to some of its
features by society women who drive
automobiles.
Many members of Council declared
Monday that they were being sub
jected to a pressuie they were power
less to resist, toughened as they are by
the many conflicting currents of po
litical sentiment. Women who drive
their own machines have been visit
ing their offices and calling them by
telephone to protest t>at the new
law against parking automobiles in
the downtown districts would abso
lutely spoil their shopping
The fight of the women ms gained
impressive support in the persons of
the heads of a number of big stores.
One of the arguments for the new
traffic taw iT'Tfffft 1 ’ ff wouTcl jVnefit
cue trade of departments stores by
clearing the entrances of parked au
tomobiles and make entrances easier.
The attitude of some of the store
heads that they are opposed to dis
turbing the leisurely women shop
pers who drive their machines and
leave them standing in the streets
has given a number of members of
Council a bewildered fee’ing. espe
cially since niany of the women have
called in person and demanded pro
tection.
Public Hearing Likely.
There seems to be little uoubi ihal
the new law will be referred to a spe
cial committee of Council for a pub
lic bearing. Whether the provision
prohibiting the parking of machines
in any one block for more than
thirty minutes within limits in
cluding me whole downtown shopping
district will be stricken is a matter
of doubt, bu; the activities of the
women practically assures 1’ne elimi
nation of the feature making it il
legal to leave a machine at ail with
out a chauffeur on Peachtree and
Whiteha.l and several tributary
streets. It looks as though any fea
ture of the law tending to present
serious interference with the shop
ping of women is doomed.
During the meetings of the joint
committee on traffic law revision of
Council and the Chamber of Com
merce it was generally considered
that whatever laws ptoposed would
be passed by Council and signed by
Mayor Wood warn. The lament of
doctors and business men who are
in the habit of coming downtown in
tneir machines early in the morning
and leavine them standing in front of
their places of business all day
seemed vain. It was proved that
their personal interests conflict so
sharply with the general public good
that they must be legislated against
and ordered to move their cars off
the principal streets.
Women’s Work Fruitful.
The action of the women is a
godsend to this class of men. Their
complaints have caught the ear or
Council in a way that the business
men could never hope to do
Some traffic law revision is bound
to come from tiie recommendations
of the Council and Chamber of Com
merce committee. Councilman Albert
Thomson, who is leading the opposi
tion. and has announced that he
would make a motion to refer the
whole matter to a Council committee
for a public hearing, said that much
more rigid traffic laws were needed.
But it seems Monda.v that the whole
matter .s to be reviewed again; and
it is certain that pains will be taken
not to interfere with The convenience
of the women.
NEW YORK. Dec. 1. Fairfax Har
rison. president of the Monon route,
and one of the foremost railroad men
in the country, to-day was elected
president of the Southern Railway
to succeed W. W. Finley, who died
last week. Mr. Harrison is a former
yice president of the Southern.
Harrison's election had been gen
erally forecast. He is well acquainted
with the problems confronting the
road and an optimistic believer in the
future of the South. Confidential
friends say he has ambitious plans for
expansion of the road. The appoint
ment to ^he presidency becomes ef
fective to-morrow.
The Southern is a part owner of
the Chicago, Indianapolis and Douis-
ville Railway, the Monon Route. Har
Tango Tea at
Pifidmoiit will
draw big
throng of
Atlanta's
prettiest society
girls.
rison is a practical railroad man.
though a lawyer, and has had a large
exuerience in financial affairs. He
is still a director of tlie Southern.
Francis Burton Harrison, New
York Congressman, recently appoint
ed to be Governor of the Philippines,
is his brother. Finley s successor is
a Virginian by birth. His father was
secretary to Jefferson Davis during
the days of the Confederacy.
TO BOOST CHRISTMAS TRADE.
YY.LDOSTA, Nov. 29.— The Cham
ber of Comm* ree is planning a
Christmas Trade Week, with aer >-
plane flights, for four day a beginning
December 1", together witn Are works
displays at night
When the ecstatic tango sounds
forth from the instruments of the
Piedmont Hotel’s girl orchestra \fon-j
day afternoon, the strains will bear
a significance.
Now, it would be hard to convince
a great many serious-minded per
sons that there is any significance to
tango music at any time. It is one
of the necessary evils,
piously.
say they can
of The Georgian and Sundae Ameri-
It really stands, then, for Christmas
But let there be no quarrel at this chanty, and for an appeul to the
time. Remember that Monday Hf- | hearts and purses of fortunate people
ternoon’s Tungo Tea at the Piedmont ! whose Christmases are always hap-
leaily stands for something, being a py. It will be a bright, gay. happy
benefit for the Empty Stocking Fund I occasion, forecasting in a way , ii
hoped, the brightness and tiie hap
piness that it will help bring into the
lives of boys and girls and tired wo
men who would have no Christmas
at all if it w er.* not for Atlanta’s
bounty
Admission 10 this affair will be $1.
Continued on Page 2, Column 7.
Widow Scores First as Legal Bat
tle, Long Delayed by Frank
Case. Is Renewed.
Litigation nvpr the i)v250.00ff
will of the late .loshua R. Craw
ford, wherein the Crawford heirs
j charged the widow. Mrs. Mary
! Belle Crawford, with having
poisoned her husband to gain his
I estate .was resumed in the old
I Chamber of Commerce bidding
before Auditor .lames L. Ander
son Monday.
The hearing, which evolved most
sensational testimony last summer,
had been postponed owing to the
Frank trial. At the time a Grand
.Fury indictment of Mrs. Crawford on
the charge of murdering her husband
wa* being soughi The hearing Mon
day was a resumption of the /civil pro
ceedings in the will case, of which
j the poison charge was tho outgrowth.
A post-mortem examination >t
C’rawford revealed what is declared
i to have been an overdose of poison
ous material in the body. This. It is
j charged by the heirs, was the worl«
i of the widow.
Dr. Hurt on Stand.
Dr. J, W. Hurt, County Physician*
was the first witness to take the stand
Monday. Dr Hurt attended Draw-
ford in his last illness.
The physician attested to having
ordered Miss Townsend, the attend
ing nurse, to -adminstc-r a dypodermia
of morphine to the dying man td
ease his pain and also declared thsr
cough drops containing opium had
been given him and scouted the the
ory of deliberate poisoning.
What was considered a slight vic-
I tory for the widow was gained when
| Dr. Hurt denied that he had com-
I mented to Dr Edgar Everhart, the
i Atlanta chemist, on the peculiar ap-
! pearanee of Crawford’s eyes before
i his death.
Attorney J. S. James, for the heirs,
! in the cross-examination, attempted
to show that the County Physician
; had noticed auspicious symptoms in
| the dying man’s eyes and had com-
I mented upon them
Hypodermic Traces Seen.
It was asserted that the pupils fit
j Crawford's eyes were contracted front
an overdose of morphine.
Reuben R. Arnold, attorney for Mrs.
| Crawford, in rebutting this assertion,
brought out from Dr. Hurt the denial
of Dr. Everhart's statement, and also
the fact that a sJight administration
of morphine, hypodermically had beon
given as well as the opium in the
cough medicine.
Dr. Hurt also declared that snefo A
hypodermic would show traces
stomach, even after death.
Dr. .J. S. McCandless followed 33a
Hurt on the stand and opposed fhe
poison theory of Dr. Harris.
Dr McCandless stated thai from4M»
investigation he seriously dinMtt
that traces of morphine or ofi**i*
poison was visible in the M an*
Lem examination, as claimed h$’ liia
Harris.
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