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PRESIDENT WILSON’S MESSAGE
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CORN SHOW OPENS: YOUNGGEORGIA
WITH GOLDEN HARVEST INVADESCITY
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Edward J. Wellborn, of Mor
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corn grower, on left, and H. G.
Dasher, of Effingham County,
another modern young agricul
turist. here for the Corn Show.
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Woman Contesting
Lee Will Scores Her
Sisters From Stand
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Sensational attacks on the charac
ter of her sisters. Mrs. Maude Thomp
son and Mrs. Claude Stamps, were
made by Mrs. La-Rue Mizell on the
witness stand Tuesday in the hear
ing of the Lee will case, which is be
ing tried before Judge George L.
Bell.
Mrs. Mizell is contesting a will
purporting to be that of her mother,
Mrs. Emma G. Lee, in which the $50,-
flOO estate is divided equally among
the three slaters.
Mrs. Mizell, on Wednesday, is ex
pected to testify regarding the actual
signing of the will, and probably will
repeat 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
test the new $100,000 fire alarm sys
tem has resulted in the appointment
of a special Council committee to try
to adjust the controversy over this
system between Mayor Woodward
and the Board of Pi remasters.
The new committee is composed of
Mayor Woodward, Aldermen C. H.
Kelley, .John S. Candler and Coun-
dlmen W. G. Humphrey and Claude
r Mason.
Self-Defense To Be
Plea in Collins Case
r 'ounsel for Clarence Collins, on
>nal charged with killing Calvin Mad
dox. a negro employee on the Healey
Building, indicated Tuesday that he
''ill plead self-defense. Collins is a
son of E. W. Collins, one of the con
tractors on the building. The de
fense’s explanation of the manner in
w hi< h the killing occurred will not be
known until Collins makes his state
ment. £
The Collins case will conclude this
term of Judge Hill’s court.
Capitol Rotunda Piled High with Crowd Cheers Knife
Wonderful Displays of Maize Duel tO the Death by
Glare of Coke Oven
Tomato Plants in
Bloom in New York
TOMPKTNRVTLLE. N. Y . Dec 2 —
fomato plants are in bull bloom in the
,< ’“ ar of Edward Silas Te expects ripe
tomatoes Le& -unas dinner.
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 Soutn.
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 com. 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 w hile 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 all—came In about noon.
But that was only the advance guard.
The main body will arrive Wednesday
morning. And then the fireworks!
Aires 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 com in
good old Morgan County, and his
champion acre is upland, not river
bottom. That acre produced this year
— hold your breath!—that acre pro
duced* 1SJ bushels of com and 72 of a
bushel more. . . . .
That is the championship yield in
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Woman Heads Pickpocket Band
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U. S. HUNTS EGG CORNER IN ATLANTA
PRICE. SAY
UNIONTOWN, PA., Dec. 2.—With
only the glare from the coke oven
men fought a duel with knives at the
fires to guide their movements, two
plant of the Brownsville Coke Com
pany near here early this morning.
A crowd of spectators urging them
on, the men battled until John Jones
went down with a deep thrust through
his abdomen and another through the
right lung. John Bokoff, the other
principal, a few minutes later gave a
queer sob and crumpled’Op.
When the spectators picked up
Jones life was extinct. Mortally
wounded, Bokoff was hurried to a
hospital by the police.
The cause of the fight is not known.
Rain Is Promised by
Official Forecaster
The weather brokers were undecided
Tuesday as to the brand of weather to
be dealt out to At'anta. Rain Is pre
dicted and with the plentiful supply of
rain clouds which the official weather
guesser had on hand this morning. It
seems his prediction might come true.
Rain is general all over the South.
There has been a big fall in Alabama
and some parts of Georgia.
Alabama Candidate
For Governor Here
Charles E. Henderson, president of
the Alabama Railroad Commission
and the local option candidate for
Governor of the "Here We Rest”
State, is in Atlanta on a business
visit.
He expresses himself as confident
that he will defeat B. B. Comer, pro
hibitionist, and that Oscar t nder-
wood will humiliate Congressman R.
P. Hobson for the Senate.
Clements Approved
For Reappointment
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The
House Committee on Interstate Com
merce adopted a resolution to-day
urging President Wilson to reappoint
Judson C. Clem« nts, of Georgia, a
member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. _
Federal Inspector Starts Probe
Here in Conjjunction With No
tion-Wide Investigation.
Atlanta Tuesday became one of the
points of activity in the nation-wide
“egg war” when L. ,1 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 house in
Atlanta. He did not divulge the re
port he will make to Washington as a
result of his investigation there. 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 he
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 pric es
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 rent of the eggs
used in Atlanta come from more than
!00 miles distant,” said another, indi
cating that this city largely was at
the mercy of the *>gg 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.
Wetz, 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 United
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 and 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, who are in
censed at the high prices that are
asked by the dealers. Eggs now' an
from 40 to 45 cents a dozen here.
Many ‘Main’ Phones
Are Changed to 1 Ivy !
New telephone books were issued
Tuesday containing many changes in
numbers from th* 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 the city and th#
increase in the number of telephones.
It is their ultimate plan to have all
telephones north of the Whitehall
atreei viaduct in the Ivy exchange.
Panic on Whitehall
Cars as Negro Dies
In Double Collision
Passengers on two Whitehall-
Peach; ree street cars were thrown
into a panic Tuesday by a collision
at Forsyth and Rrotherton streets,
w hich resulted in the instant de«th 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. hound 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 wai
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 Sourt surrendering the
charter of the Atlanta Hardwood
Company Tuesday morning, Paul
Johnson was a ppolnted as receiver of
the company. His bond was fixed at
$5,000.
The company was incorporated
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 its
charter.
Realty Men Called
In Collier Will Case
With the resumption of the hear
ing of the Collier will rase before
Judge Ellis in the Superior Court
Tuesday, a number of Atlanta real
estate men were called as 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 Interest 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 composed
j of representatives of Mohammedan-
i ism. Taoism. ■ Buddhism. Roman
Catholicism .in|T Protestantism.
ATLANTAN'S BROTHER KILLED.
PETERSBURG, VA . Dec. 2.--R. M
Weatherford, ktlled by a train near Vic
toria. Va . was buried here to-day. He
was a brother of David A. Weatherford,
of Atlanta His wife, ill in a Roanoke
hospital, waa unable to attend the fu
neral. . - -
City Detective Among Victims of
Organization Operating at At
lanta Railway Stations.
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 changed w'ith a
long list oft hefts on the streets of
Atlanta, following the wholesale rob
bery of passengers on n 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 Company, after she had
robbed him of $110 In cash and two
checks aggregating nearly ^200 on a
Decatur street car line late Monday
afternoon.
Mr. Pflngstay reported his loss to
Chief of Detectives Lanford Tuesday,
and minutely described the woman,
whom he declared was his nemesis.
Wallet *nd Checks Gone.
“She was standing next to me in
the crowded car,” said Mr. Pflngstay.
‘and I noticed that her actions were
strange. However, her refined ap
pearance deceived me.
“Suddenly she left my side and
hurried irom 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
sevan to Jump off the Birmingham
train as It pulled out of the yards,
w'ere the men who w’orked the pas
sengers of this train.
Passenger* 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
himself robbed of tickets and $30 in
money, announced the depredations
on the train.
Money, handings end suitcases
w'ere taken from the passengers, 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
$7000Grading Rebate
Just as soon as Mayor Woodward
approves the action of Council the
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 w f as left over after the com
pletion of the regrading of the street.
There is no doubt that Mayor
Woodward will approve the action of
Council.
18-Year-01d 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
Murflf 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 had
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.
Nicaragua Doesn't
Want Zelaya Now
WASHINGTON. Deo. 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. Thjs 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 be 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, and 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 Gaxcy 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 months in the DeKalb County
jail when they were taken ill.
Ho Dies From Eating
Too Much Hardware
MERIDIAN, MISS.. Per. z 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 East MissLsippt insane
Hospital by Meridian surgeons.
The 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
received by the Postofflce Department
was received from Chicago, previous
holder of the record.
The order calls for 71,630,000
stamps valued at $1,SOS,000, to ac
commodate Christmas business.
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President, in Message, Says It
Should Be Unaltered, but Clar
ified as Business Aid*
WASHINGTON, Dee. 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-day, 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 are
crumbling a little day by day,
and the collapse is not far away.
With the end of the Huerta re
gime, he said, he hoped to see
constitutional order restored in
Mexico.
Besides pleading for the swift en
actment Into law of th© Administra
tion currency bill, the President told
Congress that he believed th© Sher
man anti-trust law should stand un
altered, but that Congress should *9
rapidly as possible enact legislation
which would clarify and make explic
it “that great act” facilitate its
ministration and make it fairer to all
concerned.
First Word on Trust Law.
This is the first expression of any
kind that has come from Presid?nt
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 he with regard '•>
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 t”#
country should be relieved of aH 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 would
provide, for the direct nomination of
Presidential candidates.
Instead of the present delegate sys
tem for the Presidential conventions
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 vet end
ed, the national committees and rh®
Presidential candidates themselves, ir.
order that the platforms might be
drawn by those responsible to th®
people for carrying them into effect.
Suffragists Hear Message.
The galleries were well filled with
spectators hours before the President
arrived, many suffragists, who are in
convention here, being present.
As on former occasions of thlg
kind. Vice President Marshall was
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