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The Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. XII. NO. 105.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1913.
Copyright, IMG.
By The Georgian Ce.
2 CENTS.
PRESIDENT WILSON’S MESSAGE
FULL
CORN SHOW OPEN.;. ; YOUNG GEORGIA
WITH GOLDEN HARVESTINVADESCITY
Edward J. Wellborn, of Mor
gan County, Georgia’s champion
corn grower, on left, and II. G.
Dasher, of Effiingham County,
another modern young agricul
turist, here for the Corn Show.
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U. S. HUNTS EGG CORNER IN ATLANTA
Bin FIXES
Woman Contesting
Lee Will Scares Her,
Sisters From Stand
Sensational attacks on the charac-
' r t • - r sisters, Mr?. Maude Thomp
son and Airs. Claude Stamps, were
m;nie by Mrs. LaRue Mizell on the
witness stand Tuesday in the hear
ing of the Lee will case, which is be-
ng tried before Judge George L.
Bell.
Mrs Mizell is contesting
purporting to be that of her mother,
Mrs. Emma C Lee. in which the $50,-
MO estate is divided equally between
the three sisters.
Mrs. Alizeli, on Wednesday, is ex
pect,-! to testify regarding the actual
signing of the will, and probably will
repe her charges of fraud and for
gery.
Mayor's Veto Brings
Fire Alarm Inquiry*
Mayor Woodward’s veto of the res
olution of Council providing for the
employment of expert electricians to
’*st the new $100,000 fire alarm sys-
’‘m has resulted in the appointment
of a special Council committee to. try
10 adjust the controversy over this
8 v»tem between Mayor Woodward
«nd the Board of Firemasters.
The new committee is composed of |
Mayor Woodward. Aldermen C. H.
Kelley, John S. Candler and Coun-
'Imen W. Q. Humphrey and Claude
' Mason.
Self-Defense To Be
Plea in Collins Case
l >n«el for Clarence Collins, on
■‘rged with killing Calvin Mad-
1 negro employee on the Hca'e>
‘' n 8\ indicated Tuesday that he
plead self-defense. Collins is a
‘f E. W. Collins, one of the con-
ora on the building. The de-
xplanation of the manneu in
p killing occurred will not be
ntil Collins makes his state-
*'hie]
'oliins case will conclude
Judge Hill's court.
Plants in
Mccv mlN e w York
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HI " plants are in bull bloom in the
hA : . ' Wwan! Kilns. T<• »-.v.*• ‘ i • nr
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Capitol Rotunda Piled High With
Wonderful Displays of Maize
and Fruits.
Old Dame Fortune tilted her well-
known Horn of Plenty over the State
Capitol Tuesday morning, and out of
it poured in a golden rain the wealth
of the Young South.
The Corn Club Show was open.
The Golden Rain came down in
marvelously orderly fashion, too. In
stead of deluging the first floor of the
Capitol in a cluttering and unseemly
fashion, the shower grouped itself in
2,500 clustered pyramids, one pyramid
to the boy, ten ears to the pile,
ranged on acres of long red-covered
tables, representing 125 Georgia coun
ties.
Besides the rain of corn, Mrs. For
tune showered down a wonderful as
sortment of fruits and vegetables, all
tastefully canned or daintily pre
served in jars—the exhibits of 28
county Girls’ Canning Clubs And
that exhibit was given a well-de
served place of honor, just outside
the ante-room of the Governor's suite.
Boy Corn Growers Arriving.
And while the early morning crowds
of visitors were walking and talking
and measuring and praising and
wondering. 1,000 exhibitors—1,000
Georgia Corn Club boys—were ad
vancing on Atlanta. Some of them
arrived Tuesday morning: others—
say 200 in ali—came in about noon.
But that was only the advance guard.
The main body will arrive Wednesday
morning And then the fireworks!
Acres of orderly corn, marshaled
ten ears to the pyramid, and repre
senting a stability expected to outlast
the Cheops Pyramid of Old Egypt—
that was the crowning glory of the
Young South.
In the advance guard celebrities
were not lacking.
There was Edward J. Welborn, the
champion, for example.
Edward is rising 17, and you can
see\in his face that he was cut out by
nature to be a winner.
Edward’s Record Crop.
Edward lives and raises corn in
good old Morgan County, and his
champion acre is upland, not river
bottcin. That acre produced this year
_hokl your breath!—that acre pro
duced 181 bushels of corn and .72 of a
bushel more.
• That is the championship yield in
Georgia for 19 J 3— 181.72 bushels to
tau acre. And he is the champion—
Edward J. Wellborn. Hats off. boys—
hes’ a Regular Champion, and a credit
to his raising, and an honor to old
Georgia and the young South.
Edward will tell you a.bout his
champion crop, and he will tell you
in the stop-watch, decimal details of
a born fanner with a scientific train
ing.
High-grade fertilize!, of course.
That's part of the game these days.
"But the point is, I used plenty of
acid and kainit—16 per cent acid—
on the ground ten days before plant
ing.” says the champion, and makes
^no bones about the secret, either.
Profit Is Enormous.
“It cost me 28 cents a bushel to
raise, and the price allowed in cal
culating profit is $1.” Edward added.
"That’s a profit of $130.84 on the
acre.”
Hum-ho!
And the Georgia farmer of not so
long ago thought twenty bushels an
acre a pretty fair little crop.
Edward is not sentimental. Few
champions are. But just the same,
Edward could tell, if he would, a
pretty story of ambition and careful
planning and infinite painstaking; of
days of anxiety and nights of won
dering—but what Edward would not
tell is of the keen intuition, and the
strong heart, and the ready hands.
The Corn Champion is no boaster.
Rather, he looks to the American
record—228 bushels; he has the fig
ures pat. And he hopes to land that,
next year.
”lt belongs in Georgia.” he says
simply.
Girl Canners Also here.
And here we have Miss LeJa M.
Dickson. Fayette County Canning
Club agent—which is a large and im
portant title for a very pretty little
woman, whose canning club won the
main prize at the 1912 show, and is
going to make a grand bid for it
this time, or Miss Dickson is mis
taken. ^
"We have 50 members this year,”
Miss Dickson says. ‘Would you care
to see some of our records?”
he "records” are writeen by the
club members, bound tastefully in
covers illustrated with a design indi
cating the subject.
Thus Miss Lela Dixon—almosr the
same name, as the leader’s—Miss Le-
la Dixon ornamented her little his
tory with a most ingratiating tomato,
for that was what she raised and
canned—the tomatoes grown by her
on one-tenth of an acre.
"Tiie tormjto is a species of a plant
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Federal Inspector Starts Probe
Here in Conjujnction With Na
tion-Wide Investigation.
Atlanta Tuesday became one of the
points of activity in the nation-wide
“egg war” when I,. J. Baley, head of
the local branch of the Department
of Justice, began a sweeping inves
tigation among the principal whole
sale houses of the city to ascertain
what connection, if any, local dealers
have with the alleged egg trust, the
headquarters of which are declared to
be in Chicago.
What is regarded as a most signifi
cant feature of the local situation is
the admission of Atlanta dealers that
the prices in this city are governed
largely by the prices in the large cit
ies in the North. The Department of
Justice is determined to probe the
claim that a gigantic "egg octopus”
Is seeking to control the price of eggs
throughout the country.
Mr. Baley began his work by in
specting the storage plant of the At
lantic Ice and Coal Corporation. This
Is the largest cold storage bouse in
Atlanta. He did not divulge the re
port he will make to Washington as a
result of his investigation th/gre. It
is understood that the plant is only
partly filled with eggs.
To See All Dealers.
Before the probe in Atlanta is end
ed all of the large dealers will be
interviewed to find out exactly how
close is their connection with the so-
called eggt rust and to what extent
prices here are governed By the prices
set by those who are said to have a
corner of the market.
• Prices in Atlanta are governed by
the prices North,” said one of the
leading wholesale and retail grocers
of Atlanta.
“Sixty-five per cent of the eggs
used in Atlanta come from more than
100 miles distant,” said another, indi
cating that this city largely was at
the mercy of the egg speculators of
the North and would have to pay any
price demanded.
At the Swift & Company plant on
East Alabama street, the high price
was explained on the ground of
scarcity. Officials of the local
branch scouted the idea of a corner.
25,632,000 Eggs in Storage.
Apparently in refutation of this
statement is the fact that James E.
Wezt, the so-called "egg magnate"
of Chicago, is the admitted owner
of 25,632,000 eggs now in cold stor
age. He is regarded as the head and
front of the egg trust in the LTnited
States.
Prices already are reported to be
wavering in other cities from the
widespread boycott that has been in
augurated. Word from Detroit. St.
Paul, Kansas City, Baltimore, Wash
ington. and other sales centers tell
of thousands of clubwomen voting to
buy no more eggs ami eat no more
eggs until the corner is broken and
the prices reduced.
What has taken place in Chicago's
bitter war against exorbitant prices
for eggs may be duplicated in At
lanta by the clubwomen v ho are in
censed at the high prices that are
asked by the dealers. Eggs now are
from 40 to 45 cents a dozen here.
Many ‘Main’ Phones
Are Changed to ‘Ivy'
New telephone books were issued
Tuesday containing many changes m
numbers from the Main to the Ivy
exchange. Among these changes are
all the telephones in the Empire
Building.
Telephone officials state that the
changes are necessitated by the tre
mendous growth of tffe city and the
increase in the number of telephones
It is their ultimate plan to have ;»il
telephones north of the Whitehall
jstroei viaduct ia iha Ivy cjll fringe.
Panic on Whitehall
Cars as Negro Dies
In Double Collision
UllLETiN
Passengers on two Whitehall-
Peach tree street cars were thrown
into a panic Tuesday by a collision
at Forsyth and Brotherton streets,
which resulted in the instant death of
a negro driving a wagon loaded with
■whisky.
The negro turned from Brotherton
street into Forsyth street and drove
across the tracks just in time to get
in the way of a car coming from each
direction.
Sounds of crashing glass were
mingled with the cries of women when
the car. bound for the West End.
struck the negro's wagon. The driver
was hurled to the pavement. His
head was crushed and he was dead
when bystanders picked him up.
The northbound car also struck the
wagon, but its speed had been checked
considerably and little damage was
done by the second accident. The
front of the southbound car was bad
ly shattered and all of the glass was
broken out.
Receiver Named for
Hardwood Company
Following the filing of a petition in
the Superior Bourt surrendering the
charter of the Atlanta Hardwood
Company Tuesday morning. Paul
Johnson w as appointed as receiver of
the company. His bond was fixed at
$5,000.
The company was incorporaied
some time ago. and was thought to
be in good condition. A slow market
and other difficulties are said to have
caused the company to surrender ns
charter
City Detective Among Victims of
Organization Operating at At
lanta Railway Stations.
Realty Men Called
In Collier Will Case
With the resumption of the hear
ing of the Collier will case before
Judge Ellis in the Superior Court
Tuesday, a number of Atlanta real
estate men were called aa witnesses
to testify as to the value of certain
parcels of the property in the Wes
ley G. Collier estate.
Sanford W. Collier is suing his
brothers, George W. Collier and John
W. Collier, for $45,000. which he
claims is a one-tenth interefft in the
estate.
Signs Indicate ‘Fair/
Weather Man Says
Unless the weather man has read
the signs wrong, those overcoats that
feel so good Tuesday will not be nec
essary' Tuesday night and Wednes
day. The prediction is for fair weath
er. though it may be a trifle cloudy in
spots, for to-night and Wednesday,
with "a tendency to rising tempera
ture to-night.”
No rain is in sight for Atlanta, al
though unsettled weather prevails
over much of the South.
35 Moroccans Slain
By Spanish in Battle
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MADRID. Dec. 2.—Thirty-five
Moroccan tribesmen were killed in
a fight near Rapiles, in Spanish Mo
rocco. it was announced to-day, in a
War Office dispatch from Tetuan.
The Spaniards lost fifteen killed
and wounded.
Demand Religious
Liberty in China
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PEKIN, Dec. 2.—A league to op
pose the adoption of a State religion
in China was organized here at a
meeting held at the Young Men's
Christian Association and compost’d
of representatives of Mohammedan
ism. Taoism. Buddhism. Roman
Catholicism and Protestantism. *
ATLANTAN’S BROTHER KILLED.
PETERSBURG, VA.. Dec. 2. R M
Weatherford, killed by a train neat Vic
toria. Va., was buried her# to-day. He
was a brother of David A. Weatherford,
of Atlanta His wife, ill in a Roanoke
hospital, was unable to attend the fu
nerah - .
A richly dressed woman, about 30
years old, and beautiful. Is being
hunted Tuesday by detectives as the
probable leader of a band of daring
pickpockets who are charged with a
long list oft hefts on the streets of
Atlanta, following the wholesale rob
bery of passengers on a Seaboard
train as it steamed out of the Union
Depot Monday afternoon
The woman was first apprehended
by W. F. Pflngstay. supervisor of
leased lines for the Southern Bell
Telephone Comoany, after she had
robbed him of $170 In cash and two
checks aggregating nearly $200 on a
Decatur-street car line late Monday
afternoon.
Mr Pflngstay reported his lofcs to
Chief of Detectives Lanford Tuesday,
and minutely described the woman,
whom he declared was his nemesis.
Wallet *nd Cheoks Gone.
"She was standing next to me in
the crowded car.” said Mr. Pflngstay.
‘‘and T noticed that her actions were
strange. However, her refined ap
pearance deceived me.
"Suddenly she left my side and
hurried from the car. Immediately I
became suspicious and felt for my
wallet. It was gone, together with
the checks and cash."
Another victim of the gang's activ
ities Monday night was City Detec
tive J W. Hollingsworth, who was
robbed of $63 while assisting some
relatives on a Birmingham train at
the Union Depot.
Hollingsworth says he had two
small children In his arms and did
not feel his money leaving him.
That the amazing series of rob
beries is the work of experts there
is little doubt. It is believed that
two well dressed strangers who were
seen to Jump off the Birmingham
train as it pulled out of the yards,
were the men who worked the pas
sengers of this train.
Passengers Robbed.
A man whose name the police have
not given out reported Monday night
that he had been robbed of a large
amount of money while in the depot
waiting for a Western and Atlantic
train to Birmingham.
The first news of the wholesale
robbery on the train came from the
officials of the Seaboard Air Line ex
press to Washington and New York
which left Atlanta, at; 1:40 o'clock
Monday afternoon. A telegram from
Roadmaster J B. Harrill, who was
hlm?self robbed of tickets and $30 in
money, announced the depredations
on the train.
Money, handbags and suitcases
were taken from the passing? rs, who
complained of their losses a short
time after the train left the station
The theory is that the men pur
chased tickets to the first city out of
Atlanta, and then after robbing the
passengers left the train. The names
of the victims on the Seaboard train
have not yet been reported
Ivy Residents to Get
$7000 Grading Rebate
Just as soon as Mayor Woodward
approves the action^ of Council tiie
property owners on Ivy street will
get a rebate of $7,000 from the $30,-
000 fund they paid the city for the
improvement of the street. The re
bate was left over after tne com
pletion of the regrading of the street
There is no . doubt that Mayor
Woodward will approve the action of
Couoc:L
18-Year-Old Girl,
Guilty of Murder,
Begs To Be Hanged
CROWLEY. LA., Dec. 2.—“Hang
me now, but don’t send me back to
that cold sell,” cried 18-year-old Dora
Murff at dawn this morning as she
heard a Jury, after an all-night court
session, pronounce her guilty of slay
ing J. M, Delhaye, She will be sen
tenced December 15.
And In almost the same breath she
heard her stepfather, whom she ha 1
tried to shield by declaring she alone
killed her sweetheart, sentenced to
prison for life. The girl was convict
ed of manslaughter; James S. Du
vall of murder, without capital pun
ishment, and her young half-brother,
Allie Duvall, Jointly charged with
killing Delhaye, was freed.
APPROVES
Nicaragua Doesn't
Want Zelaya Now
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.—Nica
ragua to-day withdrew its demand
for the extradition of Jose Santos
Zelaya, ex-President of that country',
on a charge of murder. This action
was taken at a conference between
Solicitor General Folk, of the State
Department, and General Chamorra,
the Nicaraguan Minister.
Announcement was made that Ze-
laya later would be released from the
New York Tombs.
Brand Whitlock for
Minister to Belgium
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2— President
Wilson sent to-day to the Senate the
nomination of former Mayor Brand
Whitlock, of Toledo, to he Minister
to Belgium.
The President renominated Henry
M. Pindell, of Illinois, to be Ambas
sador to Russia.
He also nominated George Fred
Williams, of Massachusetts, Min
ister to Greece anc^ Montenegro, and
renominated Winfred T. Denison, of
New York, to be a member of the
j Philippines Commission.
Polls More Votes
Than 2 Opponents
CALHOUN, Dec. 2.— In a three-
cornered race for Mayor of Calhoun.
G. A. Hall was elected, polling nearly
twice as many ballots as the com
bined vote of his two opponents, W.
M. Hughey and T C. Cantrell.
In the contests for Aldermen Henry
Hall and M. Moss were the successful
candidates. J. G. B. Erwin and W. S.
Prichett were re-elected to the School
Board.
Who Wants to Look
For Percy and John?
Percy Gaxoy and John Daniels, ne
groes. early Tuesday said farewell to
the "black bottle” and other small
pox medicine, and sneaked from the
pesthouse at Decatur. They have not
been caught.
Percy and John were spending - a
few nionthg in the DeKalb County
Jail when they were taken ill.
He Dies From Eating
Too Much Hardware
MERIDIAN. MISS. Per 2. Nearly
four pounds of junk, including 375
pieces of metal, pins, buttons, bolts,
taps. rock, glass and other articles were
removed from the stomach of a pa
tient at the Hast Missislppi Insane
Hospital by Meridian surgeons.
Tiie man died from over-indulgence in
his strange diet.
$1,808,000 in Stamps
Ordered by Chicago
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The big
gest order for postage stamps ever
receivecL by the Postoffice Department
was received from Chicago, previous
holder of the record.
The order calls for 71,630.000
stamps valued at $1,808,000, to ac
commodate Christmas business.
President, in Message, Says It
Should Be Unaltered, but Clar
ified as Business Aid,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—As
serting that there can be no
peace in America until President
Huerta surrenders his usurped
authority, President Wilson, in
his first annual message to
Congress delivered in per
son to-da.r, declared that
despite that fact he did not be
lieve the United States would
have to alter its policy of watch
ful waiting:. The President said
Huerta's power and prestige arc
crumbling a little day by day,
and the collapse is not far away.
With the end of the Iluerta re
gime, he said, he hoped to sec
constitutional order restored in
Mexico.
Besides pleading for the swift en
actment Into law of the Administra
tion currency bill, the President told
Congress that he believed the Sher
man anti-trust law should stand un
altered, but that Congress should as
rapidly as possible enact legislation
which would clarify and make explic
it "that great act” facilitate its ad
ministration and make it fairer to a:!
concerned.
First Word on Trust Law.
This is the first expression of any
kind that ha a come from President
Wilson regarding the Sherman law
Business men and financiers have
been waiting with a great deal of in
terest, not to say trepidation, to learn
what the policy of the Wilson admin
istration was to be with regard to
the Sherman law, about which has
arisen so much confusion. The Pres
ident to-day said It is of capital im
portance that the business men of the
country should be relieved of all un
certainties of law with regard to their
enterprises and a clear path indicated
which they can travel without anx
iety.
"It is as important that they should
b- relieved of embarrassment and set
free to prosper as that private mo
nopoly should be destroyed.” the Pres
ident declared.
President Wilson broached a new
election reform plan during the
course of his address, which won id
provide for the direct nomination of
Presidential candidates.
Instead of the present delegate, sys
tem for the Presidential convention*,
the President asserted he would have
the conventions consist of the nomi
nees for Congress, the nominees for
vacant seats in the Senate, the Sen
ators whose terms have not yet end
ed, the national committees and Ci*
Presidential candidates themselves, l».
order that the platforms might be
drawn by those responsible to the
people for carrying them into effect.
Suffragists Hear Message.
The galleries were well filled witli
spectators hours before the President
arrived, many suffragists, who are in
convention here, being present.
A son former occasions of this
kind. Vice. President Marshall was
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