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VGL XII. NO. 105. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 3, 1913. By c A p . r n^ f 2 CENTS.
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RESIDENT WILSON’S MESSAGE II
;ORN SHOW OPENS; YOUNGGEORGIA
'ITH GOLDEN HARVESTINVADESCITY
Edward J. Wellborn, of Mor
gan County, Georgia’s chainpion
corn grower, on left, and II. G.
Dasher, of Effingham County,
another modern young agricul
turist, here for the Corn Show.
Poman Contesting
jee Will Scores Her
I Sisters From Stand
■Sensational attacks on the charac-
\ of her sisters, Mrs. Maude Thomp-
and Mrs. Claude Stamps, were
trie by Mrs. LaRue Mizell on the
p«s stand Tuesday in the hear-
f of .he Lee will case, which is be-
fe tried before Judge George L.
■Mrs. Mizell Is contesting a will
irporting to he that of her mother,
rs. Emma G. Lee. in which the $50,-
0 estate is divided equally among
* three sisters.
[Mr?. Mizell, on Wednesday, is ex
ited to testify regarding the actual
pn. -r f the will, and probably will
her charges of fraud and for-
|ry
Mayor’s Veto Brings
! Fire Alarm Inquiry
IMayor Woodward’s veto of the res-
r lon Council providing for the
P'"Tment M expert electricians to
| t ’he new $100,000 Are alarm sys-
1 as resulted in the appointment
I a special Council committee to try
J a <Fust the controversy over this
| n between Mayor Woodward
l 1 ' 1 ’be Board of Firemasters.
■ I be new committee is composed of
favor Woodward, Aldermen C. H.
I hn S. Candler and Cottti*
Ilmen W. G. Humphrey and Claude
Mason.
felf-Defense To Be
Plea in Collins Case
Counsel Tor Clarence Collins, on
barged with killing Calvin Mad-
I ne 8To employee on the Healey
ndicated Tuesday that he
1 P‘tad self-defense. Collins is a
- - W. t’ollins, one of the con*
| ' s on the building. The de-
I explanation of the manner in
| ing occurred w ill not be
n intii Colling makes his state-
1 Ins case will conclude this
I of Judge Hill's court.
tomato Plants in
Bloom in New York
C' Mr ' K,V8VI LLE, N. T.. Dec. 2.-
n . i lant8 are in bull bloom in the
*i lwar<3 SiIaf * Te expects ripe
I Jor Christmas dinner.
Old Dame Fortune tilted her well-
known Horn of Plenty over the State
Papitol 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 showered down a wonderful as
sortment of fruits and vegetables, all
tastefully canned or daintily pre
served in jars—the exhibits of 28
county Girls’ Canning Clubs. And
that exhibit was given a well-de
served place of .honor, just outside
the ante-room of the Governor’s suite. |
Boy Corn Growers Arriving.
And while the early morning crowds
of visitors were walking and talking'
and measuring and praising and
wondering, 1,000 exhibitors—1,000
Georgia Corn Club boys—were ad
vancing on Atlanta. Some.of them
arrived Tuesday morning; others—
say 200 in 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. 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 Record Crop.
Edward lives and raises corn in
good old Morgan Cbunty, 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
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Capitol Rotunda Piled High with Crowd Cheers Knife
Wonderful Displays of Maize Dliel to the Death by
and Fruits - Glare of Coke Oven
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 Rokoff, the other
principal, a few minutes later gave a
queet 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 tight 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 Atlanta. 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 Under
wood will humiliate Congressman R.
J'. 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. Clements, of Georgia, n
member of the Interstate Commerce
Commiss^n,
Woman Heads Pickpocket Band
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U. S. HUNTS EGG CORNER IN ATLANTA
NORTH FIXES
PRICE, SHY
DEALERS
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*. J. Baley, head of
the local branch of the Department
of Justice, began a sweeping inves
tigation among the principal whole
sale houses of the city to ascertain
what connection, if any, local dealers
have with the alleged egg trust, the
headquarters of which are declared to
be in Chicago.
What is regarded as a most signifi
cant feature of the local situatlon*is
the admission of Atlanta dealers that
the prices in this city are governed
largely by the prices in the large c,it-
les 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. TBTs
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 Seo All Dealers.
Before the probe in Atlanta Is end
ed all of the large dealers will be
interviewed to find out exactly bow
close is their connection with the so-
called eggt rust and to what extent
prices here are governed by the prices
set by those who are said to have u
corner of the market.
“Prices in Atlanta are governed by
the prices North," said one of the
leading wholesale and retail grocers
of Atlanta.
“Sixty-five per cent of the eggs
used in Atlanta come from more than
100 miles distant,” said another, indi
cating that this city largely was at
the mercy of the egg speculators of
the North and would have to pay any
price demanded.
At the Swift & Company plant on
East Alabama street, the high price
was explained on the ground of
scarcity. Officials of the local
branch scouted the idea of a corner.
25,632,000 Eggs in Storage.
Apparently in refutation ©f 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 ha9 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 are
from 40 to 45 cents a dozen here.
Seeks Requisition for
Head of‘Usury Trust’
DURHAM, N. C., Dec. 2.—City At
torney Charles S. Scarlett will ask
for requisition for Scott B. Appleby,
of Norfolk, Va., millionaire head of a
loan company, wanted here for usury.
When the recent campaign against
loan sharks was made, Appleby’s
agents were arrested, and now the
City Attorney wants to get the al
leged head of the "usury trust.’’
Panic on Whitehall
Cars as Negro Dies
In Double Collision
Passengers on two 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 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 w,th the cries of women when
the -car, bound for the West End.
struck the negro's wagon. The driver
was hurled to the pavement. Hil
head was crushed and he was dead
when bystanders picked him up.
The northbound car also struck the
wagon, but its speed had been checked
considerably and little damage was
done by the second accident. The
front of the southbound car was bad*
ly shattered and all of the glass was
broken out.
Receiver Named for
Hardwood Company
Following the filing of a petition in
the Superior 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
$5,000.
The company was incorporated
■ uaui. -Mi** thought, to
be in good condition. A slow market
and other difficulties are said to have
caused tho company to surrender its
charter.
Politician in Augusta
Found Dead in Street
AUGUSTA, Dec. 2.—George H.
Howard, aged 58, Councilman-elect
from the Third Ward, was found
dead at 2:30 o’clock this morning on
Greene street. Death was due to
apoplexy.
Howard was at the meeting of City
Council last night in splendid health.
He left the Council chamber about
10 o’clock. When his body Was
found by a policeman lie had been
dead several hours. Howard was a
wealthy property owner.
Realty Men Called
In Collier Will Case
With the resumption of the hear
ing of the Collier will case before
Judge Ellis in the Superior Court
Tuesday, a number of Atlanta real
estate meji were called as witnesses
to testify as to the value of certain
parcels of the property in the Wes
ley O. 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.
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 R&pilea, in Spanish Mo
rocco, it was announced to-day, iq 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 wan organized here at a
meeting held at the Young Men’s
Christian Association and composed
of representatives of Mohammedan
ism. Taoism, Buddhism, Roman
Catholicism and Protestantism.
City Detective Among Victims of
Organization Operating at At
lanta Railway Stations.
ATLANTAN'S BROTHER KILLED.
PETERSBURG, VA., Dec. 2.—R. M
Weatherford, killed by a train near Vic
toria. Va.. was buried here to-day. H«
was a brother of David A. Weatherford,
of Atlanta. His wife, ill In a Roanoke
hospital, was unable to attend the fu
neral. ■ - A. - l
A richly dressed woman, about 80
years old, and beautiful, is being
hunted Tuesday by detectives as the
probable leader of a band of daring
pickpockets who are charged with a
long list oft hefts on the streets of
Atlanta, following the wholesale rob
bery of passengers on a Seaboard
train as It steamed out of the Union
Depot Monday afternoon.
The woman was first apprehended
by W. F Pflngstay, supervisor of
leased lines for the Southern Bell
Telephone Comoany, after she had
robbed him of $110 in cash ami two
checks aggregating nearly $200 on a
Decatur street car line late Monday
afternoon.
Mr. Pflngstay reported his loss to
Chief of DetectHre 3 LahfOrfl Tuesday,
and minutely described the woman,
whortt 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 m«.
“Suddenly aho left my aide and
hurried troin the car. Immediately I
became suspicious and felt for my
wallet. It was gone, together with
tho 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
sev*n 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 Heaboard Air Line ex
press to Washington and New York
which left Atlanta at l:4p o'clock
Monday afternoon. A telegram from
Roadmaster J. B. Harrill, who was
hlmsplf 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 lueses a short
time after the train left the station.
The theory is that tho 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
$7000GradingRebate
Juirt 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 th#
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 ot
Council*
18-Year-01d Girl,
Guilty of Murder,
Begs To Be Hanged
CROWLBT, LA., Dec. 2.—"Han?
me now, but don't send me back to
that cold sell," cried 18-year-old Dora
Murff at dawn this morning as she
heard a Jury, after an all-night court
session, pronounce her guilty of slay
ing J. M, Delhaye, She will be sen
tenced December 15.
And in almost th© same breath she
heard her stepfather, whom she haJ
tried to shield by declaring she alone
killed her sweetheart, sentenced to
prison for life The girl was convict
ed of manslaughter; James 8. Du
vall of murder, without capital pun
ishment, and her young half-brother.
AlUe Duvall, Jointly charged with
killing Delhaye, was freed.
Nicaragua Doesn't
Want Zelaya Now
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Nica
ragua to-day withdrew its demand
for the extradition of Jose Santos
Zelaya, ex-President of that country,
on a charge of murder. This action
was taken at a conference between
Solicitor General Folk, of the State
Department, and General Chamorra,
tho 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.
H*» also nominated George Fred
Williams, of Massachusetts, Min
ister to Greece and Montenegro, arid
renominated Winfred T. Denison, of
New York, to be a member of the
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 th* successful
candidates. J. G. B. Erwin and W. 8.
Prichett were re-elected to the School
Board.
Who Wants to Look
For Percy and John?
Percy Oaxey 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.
He Dies From Eating
Too Much Hardware
MERIDIAN, MIRP . Dec. 2 -Nearly
four pounds of Junk, including 875
pieces of metal, pins, buttons, bolts,
taps, rock, glass and other articles were
removed from the stomach of a pa
tient at the East Misslsippl 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 Postoffice Department
was received from Chicago, previous
holder of the record.
The order calls for 71,630,000
stamps valued at $1,808,000, to ac
commodate Christmas business.
President, in Message, Says It
Should Be Unaltered, but Clar
ified as Business Aid.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—As
serting that there can be no
peace in America until President
Huerta surrenders his usurped
authority, President Wilson, in
his first annual message to
Congress delivered in per- ,
son to-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 ihe Administra
tion currency bill, the Prebident told
Congress that he believed the Shet-
man anti-trust law should stand un
altered, but that Congress should ns
rapidly as possible enact legislation
which would clarify and make explic
it “that great act” facilitate its ad
ministration and make it fairer to nil
concerned.
First Word on Trust Law.
This is the first expression of any
kind that has com/ from President
Wilson regarding the Sherman law.
Business men and financiers have
been waiting with a great deal of in- .
terest, not to sny trepidation, to learn
what the policy of the Wilson admin
istration was to be with regard to
the Sherman law, about which has
arisen so much confusion. The Pres
ident to-day said it is of capital im
portance that the business men of th©
country should be relieved of all un
certainties of law with regard to tha'r
enterprises and a clear path indicated
which they can travel without anx
iety.
“It is as important that they should
Y relieved of embarrassment and set
free to prosper us that private mo
nopoly should be destroyed,’’ the Pres
ident declared.
President Wilson broached a new
•lection 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 vet end
ed. the national committees and rh#
Presidential candidates themselves, m
order that the platforms might b*
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 this
kind, Vice President Marshall was
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