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EAVY BAIL DEMANDED OF T. WEST BY JUDGE [over m,000 [he SUNDAY AMERICAN’S net paid CIRCULATION l/ic National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 105. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1915. Copyright, 190«. By The Georgian O* 2 CENTS. WILSON URGES SHERMAN TRUST LAW CORN SHOW OPENS; YOUNGGEORGIA WITH GOLDEN HARVESTINVADESCITY rai Inspector Starts Probe e in Conjunction With No ion-Wide Investigation. knii Tuesday became on© of the L of activity in the nation-wide k;ir” when L. J. Baley, head of Lai branch of the Department Ltice, began a sweeping inves- L: among the principal whole- liounefi of the city to ascertain [connection, if any, local dealers ■with the alleged egg trust, the luarters of which are declared to ■Chicago. ■ . ref • • - as a most slgnifl- ire of the local situation is Jniisskm of Atlanta dealers that ■ rlrps in this city are governed | y by the prices in the large cit- *he North. The Department of le is determined to probe the that a gigantic “egg octopus” | king to control the price of eggs fhout the country. | Baley began his work by in- the storage plant of the At- Ice and Coal Corporation. This i largest cold storage house in la. He did not divulge the re- ■ le will make to Washington as a of his investigation there. It ui ierstood that the plant is only I filled with eggs. To See All Dealers. I ure the probe in Atlanta is end- I 1 "f the large dealers will be I hewed to And out exactly how I In their connection with the so- ■ gt rust and to what extent D* re are governed by the prices those who are said to have a of the market. | Ices in Atlanta are governed by 'rices North,” said one of the ■§- holesale and retail grocers At nta | hy-flve per cent of the eggs i Atlanta come from more than V* distant,” said another, indi- that this city largely was at e 1 terry of the egg speculators of € th and would have to pay any Memanded. tne Swift & Company plant on Alabama street, the high price Explained on the ground of • Officials of the local h scouted the idea of a corner. K>,632,000 Eggs in Storage, larently in refutation of this Bent is the fact that James E. the so-called “egg magnate” Mcago, is the admitted owner 632,000 eggs now in Cold stor- is regarded as the head and |of the egg trust in the United 1^ already are reported to be | in 4 in other cities from the *ad boycott that has been in- lated Word from Detroit. St. [Kansas City, Baltimore, Wash ed other sales centers tell ■usands of clubwomen voting to f° m °re eggg and eat no more unlil the corner is broken and rices reduced. f 1 has taken place in Chicago's War against exorbitant prices ma y be duplicated in At- |^y the clubwomen, who are In- at the high prices that arc • hy the dealers. Eggs now are 1 4 ’- ) to 4 5 cents a dozen here. iare -•Defense To Be Ilea in Collins Case : - fnspi for Clarence Collins, on ■ !hAr ged with killing Calvin Mad ne 8T0 employee on the Healey | r? - indicated Tuesday that he >iaad self-defense. Collins Is a - W. Collins, one of the con- )r * °n the building. The de- e *t>lanatlon of the manner in 1 killing occurred will not be n ,J ntll Collins makes his state- | -ollins case will conclude this Juage Hill's oourt. Captain Ernest E. West, of the ma rine corps, whose sensational attack on his mother-in-law, Mrs. John H. Jones, at her home, No. 485 Courtland street, Monday, caused his arrest on a warrant charging assault and bat tery, was bound over by Recorder Broyles Tuesday afternoon under what is probably th# highest bond ever affixed for such a charge, $2,500. Neither Mrs. Jones nor Mrs. West were in court. Dr. Willis Westmore land, who is attending the women, declared that Mrs. Jones had sus tained injuries which would detain her in bed for more than a month; also that Mrs. West was suffering from nervous prostration. FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Dec. 2.— Eleven persons are known to have been drowned and many more are missing in the town of Belton as a result of a terrific cloudburst early to-day. The greater part of the town is under water. Nolanville and sev eral otner nearby towns are flooded and it is feared that there has been more loss of life in that vioinity. The property loss reaches more than a million. VERA CRUZ, TEXAS, Dec. 2.— Special Envoy John Lind arrived here from Tuxpam this afternoon on the j battleship Nebraska. He said when j he left Tuxpam there were few rebels j in the vicinity and that the report received at Mexico Citv that the oil town had been captured by the rebels is there believed to be untrue. As the Nebraska anohored two gunboats were getting up steam to take Gen eral Maas and his artillery to Tux pam. YATES CENTER, KANS., Dec. 2.— The Yates Center National Bank was closed to-day by Bank Examiner A. C. Cutler, because of its failure to realize on securities. The liabilities are placed at $300,000 and the assets probably will be in excess of that amount. C. C. Ricker, president of the bank, said he believes depositors will be paid in full. WASHINGTON, Dec. Z—The House to-day began consideration of the Hensley resolution to approve the plan of Winston Churchill, Lord of the British Admiralty, for sn inter national holiday, with prospects of favorable action. It was decided not to limit the debate. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—A special subcommittee of the House Commit tee on Interstate Commerce Commis sion was appointed to-day to handle the problem of cold storage reform legislation. It consists of Represen tatives Adamson of Georgia, Co\jjng- ton of Maryland, Cullop of Indiana, Hamilton of Michigan and Lafferty of Oregon. INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 2.—A general strike of all union men employed in Indianapolis will be asked of the Cen tral Labor Union at a special meeting to-night by General Organizer Far rell, of the Teamsters' Union, who de clares that union men and women are being “shot and beaten up" without being given a fair show. Mounted police dispersed numerous crowds by driving their horses upon the sidewalks in the downtown dis tricts this afternoon. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 2.—Several bands of Zapata rebels have united south of here to attack the capital, according to reports that reached the Government this afternoon. Minister of War Blanquet immediately coun termanded orders which he had is sued to send Federal troops will be withdrawn from the Federal district which surrounds the capital. MORGAN FI ELD, KY., Dec. 2.— After being out 35 minutes, the jury in the case of the Commonwealth against th# Imperial Tobacco Com pany of Great Britain and Ireland and the Imperial Tobacco Company of Kentucky to-day returned a verdict of guilty of violation of the Kentucky anti-trust laws and fined each de fendant $3,500. This forfeits their charter in Kentucky. A new trial will be asked, and in case of refusal, an appeal will be taken. LONDON, Dec. 2.—Semi-official an nouncement was made to-day at Buckingham Palace that, owing to the strong disapproval of Kink George and Queen Mary to the tango, this dance and similar dances will not be toler ated at Buckingham Palace nor at any royal functions attended by members of the royal family. HOPKINSVILLE, KY.. Deo. 2.—For fear of a mob, John Smith and Grant Waddell, negroes, accused of assault ing a white woman, were smuggled out of town early to-day. CHICAGO. Dec. 2.—An issue of $10,- 000,000 in 35-year bonds was voted to day by the directors of Swift <4. Co., meat packers. The stockholders wiM be asked to vote on the bond issue at the annual meeting on January 2. LOUISVILLE, KY., Dec. 2.—A gen eral clean-up of clairvoyants, fortune tellers, etc., has been ordered as *he result of the arrest of George T. La mar charged with securing $837 in cash and a note for $700 from J D. Taylor in return for shares ot stock in a mining company which does not seem to exist. Taylor bought tne stock on the advice of the spooks with whom Lamar communicated. So many swindles of this sort have occurred that police orders to rid the city of such characters have been given. 4 WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—A bill to prohibit gambling in cotton futures was reintroduced in the House to-day by Representative Heflin, of Alabama. It forbids the maintenance of any stock exchange or establishments wherein future contracts are handled without the actual delivery of the cotton. The publication of quota tions on futures also is prohibited. CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—Former Federal Judge Peter S. Groescup was scored by Judge Petit, of the Circuit Court, to-day for writing tha court a letter with reference to litigation pending over the estate of the late W. T. Ba ker, once president of the Chicago Board of Trade. “It wouldn’t make any difference if it were ten Judge Grosscups," said Judge Petit. “I don’t try cases that way. There is no use in trying to justify Judge Grosscup in writing a leter to a judge hearing a pending law suit. It is absolutely unjustifiable." Judge Grossoup is not of record as counsel In the case. He has recently moved to New York. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2.—Jack Long, a teamster, was shot in the leg this afternoon by William Whorton, a negro transfer driver, with police powers, who took umbarge when Long tried to argue with him for alleged “scabbing.” Scores of heads were crecked By police dispersing mobs. One mounted officer's horse plunged through a shoe store show window on Washington street while dispersing a mob. SH ELBYVILLE, IND., Deo. 2.—Dr. Ernest C. Reyer, of Indianapolis, was the first witness to take the stand in the Knabe-Craig mystery trial this afternoon. Dr. Reyer was the first physician to reach the death chamber after the body was found. He went into a detailed account of his actions after hq reached the scene. “My first observation was that the room was extremely orderly,” said Reyer. PUEBLO, COLO.. Dec. 2.—Twenty- five warrants were issued to-day out of the United States Court for the arrest of head officials of the United Mine Workers of America and leading State officials of that organization. The indictment against these men were returned late yesterday by a United States grand Jury after weeks of investigation by the southern Colorado ooal strike. The indictment charges conspiracy to monopolize la bor and conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce. Among the of ficials for whom warrants are issued are John P. White, president; Frank J. Hayes, vice president, in Denver, and William P. Green, treasurer, M inneapolis. WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.—A new scheme to mulct the farmor was re ported by the Department of Agri culture to-day. It comprises the ad vertising under new names at ex- horbitant price of two old plants. One is the “asparagus or yardlong bean,” which is advertised as the “Shanon pea,” and the other the “Jack bean,” touted as the “giant stock pod bean.” LONDON, Dec. 2.—Dillah McCar thy, a well known actress, came into a fortune of $250,000 to-day as the re sult of the death of her father, Jonada B. McCarthy. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—A resolu tion directing the Secretary of the Navy to apoint a committee of three naval officers to investigate the availability of a site for the proposed armor plate plant at or near Rich mond, Va., was introduced to-day by Representative Montague. DURBAN, NATAL, Dec. 2.—The second strike within a month of East Indians employed in South African sugar refineries began to-day. One hundred and twenty-three ringleaders were arested and imprisoned, WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—A report submitted to Congress to-day by Post master General Burleson shows that during the fiscal year which ended June 30 last, postal savings banka deposits increased from $20,000,000 to $33,000,000. 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 appointed as receiver of the company. His bond was fixed at $6,000. 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. Georgia Man Killed On Mississippi Train MEMPHIS, Dec. 2.—The body of Lee Shaw, a railroad conductor who was killed Sunday at Marks, Miss., will be sent to Blackshear, Ga., hifl old home, to-night. He leaned to far out of a coach to signal his engineer, and his head w’as crushed by a baggage truck. City Detective Among Victims of Organization Operating at At lanta Railway Stations. Edward J. Wellborn, of Mor gan County, Ceorgia’a champion corn grower, on left, and II. G. Dasher, of Effingham County, another modern young agricul turist, here for the Corn Show. TO MOVE RIVER FLEET. COLI'MBt'S, Dec. 2. Major Edward Brown, engineer in charge of river Im provements in this section, with head quarters in Montgomery, is preparing to Bend the Government river fleet to the St. Andrews Bay canal. 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 ot 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 and 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 trom 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 j the Union Depot. Hollingsworth says he had two | small children In his arms and did | not feel his money leaving him. That the amassing 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. Harrlll, who was himself robbed of tickets and $30 in money, announced the depredations on the train. Money, handbags end suitcases were 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. Woman Contesting Lee Will Scores Her Sisters From Stand POLICY FOR RACING RESULTS Sensational attacks on the charac ter of her sisters, Mrs. Maude Thomp son and Mrs. Claude Stamps, were made by Mrs. LaRue Mizell on the witness stand Tuesday In the hear ing of the Iy©e 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,- 000 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 chargee of fraud and for- gery. AT CHARLESTON. FIRST ▼ Five furlongs: Run May 100 (Derondo), 10. 3, Zmb, won; Bastante 104 iTurner), 15, 0. 5-2, second; Roger Gor don 105 (Wolfe), 9-2, 7-5, 1-2, third. Time. 1:03 2-5. Also ran: Belle Terre, Munson, Colfax. High Class, Transfor mation and Single Day. SECOND Six ami one-half furlongs: Chilton King 111 (Nathan). 4-5, 2-5, out, won; Robert Bradley 114 (Turner), 11-5, 1-4, second; Gerrard 111 (Obert), 25, 8, 4. third. Time. 1:22 1-5. Also ran: Bernadotte, Turkey in the Straw, Willis, Discovery, Prospect anil Captain Jinks. THIRD -Five furlongs: Trade Mark, 112 (Burxton). 4-5, 7 20. 1 -5.'won; Lost Fortune, 112 (Turner). 9-2, 4-5, 3-5, sec ond; GraZelle, 105 (Deronde), 12, 4. 2, third. Tmle. 1:02 3-5 Also ran: Bulgur, Flatbush. Hudas Brother, Otranto, Cas- tara. FOURTH—Milo and 20 vards: Pard- ner. 109 (Deronde), 5-2. 2-5, out, won; Dartworth, 107 (Buxton). 7-10, 1-4, out, second; Counterpart, 100 (Keogh), 12, 3, 7-10. third. Time, 1:44. Also ran; L. H. Adair, Chemulpo. FIFTH—Five and half furlongs: Amerieus, 110 (Corey), 10, 4, 2, won; Amoret, 113 (Buxton), 12-5, even. 1-2, second, Tom Holland, 107 (Martin), 8. 3, 8-2, third. Time, 109 4 5. Also ran; Rye Straw, Flying Yankee, Berkeley, Judge Monck, Gagnant, Concurran, Pre mier AT JUAREZ. FIRST—Five and half furlongs: Hinlata, 110 (Wods), 3, even, 1-2, won; Little Bit. 103 (Benton), 3, even, 1-2, second; Anna Kenedy, 110 (Ma thews), 8, 3, 3-2. third Time, 1:06 2-3. Also ran: Augustus Heinze, Ave, Bar bara Lane, Old Gotch, George, Irish Ann, Attica. Art Rick, Fool o’Fortune, Alabama Bam, Bq Buena. Race Entries on Page 2. Alabama Candidate For Governor Here Charles H. 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 Under wood will humiliate Congressman R. P. Hobson for the Senate. PROJECTING NEW RAILROAD. COLUMBUS. Dorn 2.—P. M. Carlisle, a capitalist of Panama City, Fla ., has b**en spending several days In Colum bus in the Interest of a proposed rail road to connect Columbus with Panama City. Capitol Rotunda Piled High with,Crowd Cheers Knife Wonderful Displays of Maize Duel tO the Death by Glare of Coke Oven and Fruits. Old Dame Fortune tilted her well- known Horn of Plenty over the Slate 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 corn, Mrs. For tune show'ered 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 < ;<*v« rn>.r’s suite. Boy Corn Grower# Arriving. And w'hlle 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! 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 t*r be a winner. Edward’s Reoord Crop. Edward lives and raises com in good old Morgan County, and his champion acre Is upland, not river bott< m. That acre produced this year -hold your breath!—that acre pro duced 181 bushels of corn and .72 of a bushel more. That is the championship yield in Continued on Page 6, Column 3. 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 up. When the spectators picked up Jones life was extinct. Mortally wounded, Bokoff w'as hurried to a hospital by the police. The cause of the fight is not known. Winecoff to Banquet Newspaper Scribes Almost every newspaper man in At lanta wrote a letter to-day, saying ‘‘YES’’ enthusiastically and unani mously to an invitation extended to the scribes of the city by Frank Har rell, manager of the new' Hotel Wine coff, to be- his guest at a banquet at the new hostelry on tho evening of December 8. The feast will begin promptly at 9 o’clock, and continue as long ns the guests can stand up un der tho assaults of the combined armies of the Nectarial and Ambrosial departments of the hotel. The fame of the Winecoff banquets has spread afar in the land, and the newspaper men are awaiting the oc casion eagerly and with tremendous appetites—and thirsts. Tomato Plants in Bloom in New York TOMPKINSVILLK. N Y., Dec. 2.— Tomato plants are In bull bloom in the cellar of Edward Silas Te expects ripe tomatoes for Christmas dinner. President, in Message, Says It Should Be Unaltered, but Clar ified as Business Aid. WASHINGTON, Dfio. 2 — AssertJn* thati there can be no peace In America until President Huerta surrenders his usurped authority, President. Wilson, in his first annual message to Con gress delivered in person to-day, de clared that despite that fact he did not believe the United States w’ould have to alter its policy ot watchful waiting. The President said Huerta's power and prestige are crumbling a little day by day, and the collapse is not far aw r ay. With the end of the Huerta regime, he said, he hoped to see 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 Shet- man anti-tTust law should stand un altered, but that Congress should .is rapidly as possible enact legislation which would clarify and make explic it "that great act” facilitate. its ad ministration and make it fairer to p.l! concerned. First Word on Trust Law. This is the first expression of any kind that has 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 trepidatL n, to learn what the policy of the Wilson admin istration was to bo 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 t^e country should be relieved of all un certainties of law’ with regard to their enterprises and a clear path indicated wrhich they can travel without anx iety. “It Is as Important that they should T 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 tho 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 w’ould have the conventions consist of the nomi nees for Congress, the nominees 'or vaca-t seats in the Senate, the Sen ators whose terms havo not yet end ed, the national committees and the Presidential candidates themselves, lx order that the platforms might be drawn by those responsible to the people for carrying the: i 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 this kind, Vice President Marshall was Continued on Page 4, Column 1. Panic on Whitehall Cars as Negro Dies In Double Collision Pa ssengers on tw'o Whitehall- Peachtree 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 dror - ' 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 w'agor. 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. Thi front of the southbound car was bad ly shattered and all of the glass was broken out _ v