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OVER 100,000 THE SUNDAY AMERICAN'S net PAID CIRCULATION The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results EVENING EDITION The NationalSouthern Sunday Newspaper VOL. XII. NO. 104. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1913. 2 CENTS. HURT SCOUTS CRAWFORD POISON THEORY C&J C& c&i c C&l c&j C& C&J C& Billion Dollar Demand Made on U. S. Cong ress n * • “ n t? ,t_ m n * TANGO TEA MUSIC TO HAVE REAL nnilT Him 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. ■ 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. “AT BAY ** A Thrilling Story of Society Blackmailers Begins To-day on the Page Read It!