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VOL. XII. NO. 105.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMKER 2, 1913.
Copyright. 1*0*.
By Th* Georgian C*.
2 CENTS. rAT H NO
HERMAN TRUST LAW IS APPROVED BY PRES. WILSON
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LATEST
NEWS
leral Inspector Starts Probe
ere in Conjunction With No
tion-Wide Investigation.
tlantA Tuesdav became one of the
its of activity in the nation-wide
war when I* J Baley, head of
ip local branch of the Department
' Justice, began a sweeping inves-
|. r.ion among the principal whole-
houses of the city to ascertain
t connection, if any, local dealer*
p with the alleged egg trust, the
|e’dquarters of which are declared to
Chicago.
I What s regarded as a most signifl-
pmt feature of the local situation is
'admission of Atlanta dealers that
lie prices In this city are governed
jirgeli pri( as in the large cit -
Is in *he North. The Department of
justice Is determined to probe the
dm ’hat a gigantic "egg octopus"
| seeking to control the price of eggs
Imue’ • the country.
I Mr. Baley began hi* work by in-
iier'ng p t- rage plant of the At-
fr ' e ai.d oal Corporation. This
i the largest cold storage house in
a. He did not divulge the re-
(c"t he wi’l make to Washington as a
‘-suit of his investigation there. It
i understood that the plant is only
^rtly filled with eggs.
To See All Dealer*.
|Before the probe In Atlanta Is end-
all of the large dealers will be
itervlewed to find out exactly how
lose 16 their connection with the so
iled eggt rust and to what extent
h^es here are governed by the prices
pt by those who are said to have a
prner of the market.
Prices in Atlanta are governed by
f 10 prices North," said one of the
lading wh esal< and retail grocers
v Atlanta.
J "81xty-flve per cent of the eggs
|sed !n Atlanta come from more than
^ miles distant," said another, indi
ting that this city largely was at
t mercy of the egg speculators of
- North and would have to pay any
demanded.
|^At the Swift & Company plant on
Alabama street, the high price
l as e *Pla!ned on the ground of
f arc ^y. Officials of the local
■ ran "h scouted the idea of a corner.
25-632,000 Egg* in Storage.
I Apparently in refutation of this
f erner ' is the fact that James E.
| he so-called “egg magnate"
Chicago, is the admitted owner
_ *^32,000 egga now in cold stor-
ig regarded as the head and
T oru of egg trust in the United
states
L. IOe * already are reported to be
, er,n % in other cities from the
P e,prea d boycott that has been in-
Word from Detroit. St.
Ul ’ Ka ns-is City, Baltimore, Wash-
an< ^ otiler sales centers tell
- •°usands of clubwomen voting to
rr > more egg# and eat no more
r e unti * The corner is broken and
P Prices reduced.
1 taken place in Chicago's-
■ )r , ' ilr against exorbitant prices
tT10 ^ ^ u P^ ca ted in At-
^ ,!iP clubwomen, who are in-
Ifiked 1,10 prices that arc
¥ 1 he dealers. Eggs now are
J ‘ ■ ents a dozen here.
^bama Candidate
hor Governor Here
l * '' Henderson, president of
Ed a Tla Railroad Commission
“ P ^ option candidate for
fo./ 01 * ° f the " He re We Rest"
n Atlanta on a business
^,-es-ses himself as confident
T It B. B. Comer, pro-
Wsr that Oscar Under-
[•Hops < r n:liate Congressman K
1 on for the Senate.
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 arreet on
a warrant charging assault and bat
tery, was bound over by Recorder
Broyles Tuesday afternoon under
what is probably the 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.
What presaged a smoke war against
r ailroads with Atlanta terminals was
seen in a warrant taken out by City
Smoke Inspector Cecil Poole against
W. W. Waits, superintendent of ter
minals of the Southern Railway, late
Tuesday afternoon on two specific in
stances of Southern locomotives vio
lating the city smoke ordinance. The
case will be tried Wednesday.
PARIS, Dec. 2.—The downfall of
the French Ministry it practically as
sured following the Government's de
feat in the House of Deputies to-day,
when the members by a vote of 290 to
265 failed to give the Government a
vote of confidence on one of its fi
nancial proposals. The proposal was
regarding the immunity of Govern
ment land stocks from taxation. Tu
multuous scenes followed the vote in
the chamber.
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 vicinity. The
property loss reaches more than a
nillion.
VERA CRUZ, TEXAS, Dec. 2.—
Special Envoy John Lind arrived here
from Tuxpam this afternoon on the
battleship Nebraska. He said when
he left Tuxpam there were few rebels
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 anchored two gunboats
were getting up steam to take Gen
eral Maas and his artillery to Tux
pam.
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, Coding-
ton of Maryland, Cullop of Indiana.
Hamilton of Michigan and Lafferty of
Oregon.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 2.—Several
bands of Zapata rebels have united
south of here to attack the capital,
acoording 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.
MORGANFIELD, KY., Dec. 2.—
After being out 35 minutes, the jury
in the case of the Commonwealth
against the 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.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.—A bill to
prohibit gambling in cotton futures
was reintroduced in the House to-day
byr 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.
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.
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 coal 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
Ire John P. White, president; Frank
j Hayes, vice president, in Denver,
;‘ nd William P. Green, treasurer,
M mneapolis.
POLICY FDD
President, in Message, Says
Huerta Must Go, but Will Con
tinue to Wait.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Asserting
that 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 would
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 away. With the end of the
Huerta regime, he said, he hoped to
see constitutional order restored in
Mexico.
Beside.* 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 .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 al!
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 trepldatl n. to learn
what the policy of the Wilson admin
istration was to be with regard T o
the Sherman law. about which has
arisen so much confusion. The Pres
ident to-day said it la 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
\ 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
vaca. t seats in the Senate, the Sen
ators whose terms have not yet end
ed, the national committees and 'he
Presidential candidates themselves, lr
order that the platforms might be
drawn by those responsible to the
people for carrying theri into effect.
Suffragists Hear Messaqe.
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 Paqe 4, Column 1.
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 the evening of
December 8. The feast will begin
promptly at 9 o’clock, and continue as
long as the guests can stand up un
der the 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.
CORN SHOW OPENS; YOUNG GEORGIA
WITH GOLDEN HARVESTINVADESCITY
Edward J. Wellborn, of Mor
gan County, Georgia’s champion
corn grower, on left, and H. G.
Dasher, of Effingham County,
another modern young agricul
turist, here for the Corn Show.
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 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 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 Check* 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 1
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 report©'* 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.
PASADENA, CAL., Dec. 2.—Five
thousand dollar* ransom demanded by
Mexican bandits for the release of
W. S. Windham, Pasadena, superin
tendent of Quimichis Ranchon, near
Mazatlan, and Assistant Superinten
dent Dunn, has been ordered paid. Dr.
William Livingston, of Oxonard, and
former Senator R. Bard, of Huenume,
both part owners, late this afternoon
wired their banks at Mazatlan, au
thorizing them to pay the ransom.
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 bank*
deposits increased from $20,000,000 to
$33,000,000.
McGill Knocked Down While in
Act of Flushing a Negro
Dice Game.
RACING
RESULTS
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST Five furlongs: Run May 100
(Derondo), 10. 3. 7-5, won; Bastante 104
(Turner), 15. 6. 5-2. second; Roger Gor
don 105 (Wolfe). 9-2, 7-5, 1-2, third.
Time, 1:03 2-5. Also ran: Belle Terre,
Manson, Colfax. High Class, Transfor
mation and Single Day.
SECOND—Six and one-half furlongs:
Chilton King 111 (Nathan). 4-6, 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, Willi*.
Discovery. Prospect and 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: Bulgar,
Flatbush, Hudas Brother, Otranto, Caa-
tara.
FOURTH Mile and 20 yards. Pard-
ner, 10D (Deronde), 5-2, 2-6. out, won;
Dartworth, 107 (Buxton), 7-10, 1-4, out,
second; Counterpart. 106 (Keogh), 12, 3.
7-10. third. Time. 1:44 Also ran: L. H.
Adair, Chemulpo.
FIFTH Five and half furlongs;
Americus, 110 (Corey), 10, 4, 2, won;
Amoret, 113 (Buxton). 12-5, even. 1-2.
second Tom Holland. 107 (Martin), 8,
3, 3-2. third. Time, 1:09 4-5. Also ran:
Rye Straw, Flying Yankee, Berkeley,
Judge Monck, Gagr;ant, Concurran, Pre
mier.
SIXTH Mile and sixteenth: Over the .
Sands. 101 (Martin), 9-2, 7-5 3-5, won;!
Merry L*»d, 112 (Buxton), 8 5, 7 10, 13,
second: Pierre Dumas, 108 (Alley, 15, 6.1
S ithrd. Time, 1:51 1-6. Also ran: Tav
Pay, Michael Angelo, Reno, L. M Eck
ert.
AT JUAREZ.
FIRST—Five and half furlongs:
Hiniata, lift (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.
SECOND—Five and half furlongs:
Doc Allen, 103 (Neylon), 4, 2, even,
won; Compton, 111 (Cavanaugh), 5,
2, even, sneond; John Murie, 103
(Gross), 6, 2. even, third. Time,
1:07 2-5. Also ran: George Karine,
The Fad, Joe Woods, Frazzle, Milt
Jones, (’on Carne, Frank Wooden, Lee
Harrison II, Calet hum plan, Billy Myer,
Bon Ton, Silver Grain.
THIRD— Mile and sixteenth: Orbed
Lad, 111 (Moore). 4-5. 2-5, 1-5, won;
Ursula Emma, 107 (Phillips), 4, 8-5,
Crowd Cheers Knife
Duel to the Death by
Glare of Coke Oven
UNIONTOWN, PA., Dec. 3.—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 uritfll 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 was hurried to a
hospital by the police.
The cause of the fight is not known.
Ivy Residents to Get
$7000GradingRebate
Just as soon as Mayor Woodward
approves the action of Council the
property owners on Ivv 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 the com
pletion of the regrading of the street.
There is no doubt that Mayor
Woodward will approve the action of
Council.
4-5, second; Faneuil Hall, 103 (Fee
ney), 8, 3, 3-2, third. Time, 1:46 2-5.
Also ran: Topland, Marie oghill, Jim
Cafferata, Wishing Ring, Robert
Curlicue.
Rac« Entries on Page* 2.
Capitol Rotunda Piled High With
Wonderful Displays of Maize
and Fruits.
Old Dame Fortune tilted her well-
known Horn of Plenty over the 8tate
(’apitol 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.
Boy Corn Grower# 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 Com Club boys—were ad
vancing on Atlanta. Some of them
arrived Tuesday morning; others—
say 200 in ail—came In about noon.
But that was only the advance guard.
The main body will arrive Wednesday
morning. And then the firework*!
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 whs the crowning glory of the
Young South.
In the advance guard celebrities
were not lacking.
There was Edward J. Welbom, 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 Reoord 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 181 bushels of com and .72 of a
bushel more.
That is the championship yield in
Continued on Page 6, Column 3.
Detective J. F. McGill, of th<
city foroe, was badly injured
Tuesday afternoon when he was
knocked down and trampled into
unconscious while participating
in a raid on a negro dice game in
the rear of a Decatur street sa
loon.
At the Grady Hospital, where Mo-
Qlll was rushed, It was declared that
he had suffered, besides scalp wounds
and bruises, probably serious in
ternal Injuries from kicks which he
received
McGill and four other detectives
had responded to a report that a
gang of blacks were playing dice
somewhere in the vicinity of Decatur
and Butler streets. The sleuths sep
arated. each to investigate the neigh
borhood.
While Detective Starnes entered
the front of the saloon, which was
thought a likely place for the gaipe*
McGill went to its rear entrance. The
gamblers, seeing Starnes, made a
hasty retreat for the rear. At the
door they were confronted by McGill.
With shouts and yells, they threw
themselves upon the detective, knock
ing him down and racing over him
like a herd of cattle. Detective
Starnes, giving immediate chase,
caught one of the negroes.
When Starnes returned to the sa
loon with his prisoner, he found Mc
Gill lying on the floor of the place in
a small pool of his own blood
Panic on Whitehall 1
Cars as Negro Dies
In Double Collision
Passengers on two WhltehalU
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 drovs
across the tracks just in time to get
in the way of & 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 waa
done by the second accident. Thn
front of the southbound car was bad
ly shattered and all of the glass was
broken out.
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 Are 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 Firemasters.
The new committee is composed of
Mayor Woodward. Aldermen C. H.
Kelley, John S Candler and Ooun-
cilmen W. G. Humphrey and Claude
C. Mason.
COUNCIL CLOSES STREET.
Council Monday night overrode the
veto of Mayor Woodward dixapprov
lng the ordinance closing the street
at Broad and Alabama for building
operations. »
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