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OVER 100,000 THE SUNDAY AMERICAN’S NET PAID CIRCULATION The National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use for Results 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 [DETECTIVE T 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. » i