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v ANN SCORES PRESIDENT POLICY 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. 106. ATLANTA, OA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 3, 1913. Copyright, 1908. By Tho Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. :,000 SUFFRAGISTS TAKE PLEA TO THE WHITE HOUSE 11 PERISH TO RAISE Minority Leader Urges Prepara tion for War, Despite Fact Strife Is Not Likely Now, WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—What was | by Minority Deader Mann jid others as significant action In view of the Mexican situation, was taken bv the House late to-day when passed on a viva voce vote the |Hay bill to provide for the raising teh volunteer forces of the United IStat'S in time of actual or threaten- |ed war. Although Chairman Hay of the |j; ary Affairs Committee would not ■idmit any special reason for hasty ■lotion, Representative Mann said he ■regarded it as significant that the bill |was put hrough a this time. Mann said he feared conditions to las;. vere much the same as those pre- |vailing just before the war with Spain, and that he could “see no end to the road.’’ "II seems to me that Is conditions io not improve in Mexico soon, some- I ■ Ting have to be done. This may ■ mean intervention or war for this ■ country." said Mr. Mann in the dls- IciiMion of the Mexican situation and |'he possibility of intervention. Mr. Mann scored the Wilson policy I of "watchful waiting." I Rebels Sweeping I North Mexico. VERA CRUZ, Dec. 3.—Rebels under lEufomio Zapata to-day attacked the I Interoceanic Railway near Cuautla, I dynamiting the station and water ■anks and burning a bridge. Zapatistas have looted Muclo Martinez, State of Puebla, killing the Mayor and seventeen citizens. Near Chietla a band of 25 Federals was | ambuscaded and a lieutenant and flf- *en soldiers killed. j 27 Executed by Victorious Rebels. I •pgclai Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 3.—-Twenty - I seven federal soldiers and civilians were executed to-day at Jalpam, ! State of Queretaro, after rebels cap tured ihe place. The garrison of nine- •ldiers and eight citizens were ihot. ‘‘General’’ Figueroa, former bandit and rebel chief, who has been ne gotiating with the Government, has ’oinei the Constitutionalists. H *\ Kidder, an American employ ed by the Waters-Pierce Oil Com- pany, who was arrested at San Luis Potosi, charged with being a rebel 8 P>’. was released to-day. Villa To Protect Aliens at Chihuahua. EL PASO, TEXAS, Dec. 3—Gen- era -l Prancisco Villa has postponed his departure for Chihuahua City until to-morrow morning, in the meantime •ending assurances to the foreign Consuls in that city that the Consti tutional sts will respect lives and property. * ! ,K ' ertain, however, that Villa ^ ce “r bel currency’’ issued by ' s ’-itutionalists provisional gov- * rnm ' : • upon merchants there as he d ’ d in Juarez. “ e commission headed by n r Bf-rnandez, which represented General Villa in Juarez that seven general# including Orozco, " Caraveo and Landa, who PARIS, Deo. 3.—Francisco de la Barra, Mexican Minister to France and formerly provisional President of the Republic of Mexico, left h«re to day for Japan. His departure was unexpected by attaches of the Mexi can legation. It was said that he re ceived orders to leave for Tokio from President Huerta. SYDNEY, NEBR.. Dec. 3.—Four inches of snow fell nere to-day. Re ports from Alliance, Nebr., this after noon said that a heavy snow was falling there. DALLAS, TEXAS. Dec. 3.—Heavy rains in this section for the past two days have done a vast amount of property damage. Water was stand ing ten feet deep in the streets of Waco. The Brazos River which over flowed yesterday, had reached a 38- foot stage to-day, the highest ever known. The Fort Worth and Den ver Railroad was forced to abandon train schedules on account of num erous washouts on its line. There was no interurban service to-day from Dallas to Waoo, Cleburne and Fort Worth. TULSA, OKLA., Dec. Mrs. Al bert T. Patrick, wife of the central figure in one of the most remarkable murder casea in American history, is dying of an incurable malady in the Tulsa Hospital. Attending phy sicians say she has but a few days to live. Mrs. Patrick is unconscious most of the time. CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 3.—Eigh teen strikers and sympathizers were arrested and two dozen rifles and re volvers were seized to-day by depu ties who stormed a boarding house near the Champion mine. The strik ers had barricaded themselves in the house and refused to admit deputies who wished to search the premises. Several of the men arrested to-day are believed to have been guilty of nightly shooting in Rainesdale which has terrorized the residents of the town. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 3.—Newspa pers supporting the Huerta adminis tration directed resentful criticism to day toward President Wilson’s mes sage. El Imparcial declared that it had private information to the effect that the message also displeased cer tain foreign diplomats at Washington. El Pais said President Wilson’s words were “injurious.” WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—John P. Densmore, solicitor of the Department of Labor, to-day was .appointed .a mediator in the teamsters and chauf feurs’ strike in Indianapolis by Acting Secretary of Labor Post. Mr. Dens- more has gone to Indianapolis. FALL RIVER, MASS, Dec. 3.— Members of the State Board of Ar bitration to-day unavailingly urged the textile union efficials to defer strike action. More than 35,000 tex tile operatives will vote to-night on the question of an Increase in wages. Schoolboys See Their Playmate Run Down by Automobile As scores of his school chums looked on. Jack Turner. 6 years old, son of Mrs. Lela Turner, No. 139 Nelson street, was run over by an automobile in front of his home shortly after 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and had one leg broken. The Nelson home Is right In the back of the Walker Street School, which /ack attends as a pupil in the first grade. According to eyewit nesses, the youngster ran directly in front of a Ford machine driven by M M. Mashburn, a collector for the Southern Bell Telephone Company. The car Is said to have been going at about ten miles an hour, Mashburn picked the little fellow up, carried him into his home, called a doctor, and reported the case him self to the police. * er ‘ defeated in the fight at Tlerra ‘•u..a were willing to surrender, H ' w;:tl cut the sanction of Genera! , 7 d information was se- 1 here to-day at the Mexican consulate. Turner Faces Charge Before Council Board _ M Electric!am Turner Thursday , ^ U P the charges of unjust r ‘’ion made against him by v. ° n Electric Company, a ,■ 1 Hoard of Electrical Control Li’v ’ Fiectrlc Committee of the uUnc *l meet in joint session. City Employe Held For Stockade Attack Clyde E. Jackson formerly foreman of the city public works department, was held under $1,000 bond Wednes day for assault with intent to kill in connection with his alleged attaca on J. M. Leftwich, an aged man, at the stockade several weeks ago. Jackson waived bail. Leftwich, though still in a serious condition, had improved sufficiently to appear in court. the weather. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia Generally cloudy to-night and Thursday. Men Cut Off From Outside by Lack of Fire Escapes—Bos ton’s Biggest Holocaust. BOSTON, Dec. 8.—Twenty-five men were burned to death early to-day in a fire which destroyed the Arcadia Lodging House, at No. 1202 Washing ton street. This was the heaviest death toll ever recorded in a fire in Boston. Two persons were fatally injured, with more than a score slightly hurt or overcome by smoke. There were 179 asleep in the lodg ing house when the fire broke out. The flames spread swiftly through the flimsy building and a number of men caught on the upper floors leaped from windows. All of the victims were poverty- stricken men, the lodging house being a 15-cent night affair, catering to the poor. Many of them were homeless wanderers, and for this reason the authorities believe that the names of all the victims will never he known. Many Jump Into Nets. The conflagration was attended by many thrilling escapes. Firemen spread nets and into these many of the panic-stricken lodgers leaped. One man wrapped a mattress around his body and jumped from the fifth floor, the mattress saving his life. Policemen from the East Dedham street station lined along the fire es cape were forced to beat the fugi tives with their clubs to start them on their way to the street and clear the Are escape to make room for oth ers fleeing from the building. The meager fire escapes on the rear of the building offered escape to only a few. Those occupying rooms in the front of the building were cut off by a wall of flame which soared up the stairways and drove them to the windows to escape suffocation. There was no fire escape on the front or side of the building, and most of the dead were found near the win dows. Night Clerk Disappears. Night Clerk Walsh had just fin ished up his books when the fire was discovered. He escaped and disap peared. Medical Examiner Leary, after an examination at the scene of the fire, declared: “I am going at this matter with an ax. This is one of the greatest crimes ever committed in this city. An in quest will be started to-day. Bos ton has nearly a dozen such fire traps. This building looked like a slaughter house. There is no good excuse for such a condition of affairs.” GEORGIA FANCIERS WIN POULTRY SHOW PRIZES Patterson Quits as General Head of Panama Railroad Dispatches from Washington Wed nesday brough the information that John D. Patterson, of this city, has resigned his position as superinten dent of the Panama Railroad. He was appointed to the place In March, following the inauguration of Presi dent Wilson. Executive Declared Section Is En joying Its Greatest Period of Prosperity Since War, Candidates Tremble As They Alone Vote In Regular Election Wednesday is the annual city elec tion day, and though there has be?n no campaigning there Is more than one candidate nervous over the re sult. The nominees of the white pri mary fear that some one may surrep titiously oppose them and possibly De elected on account of the extremely small vote that will be cast. City Clerk Walter Taylor is holding the election to-day on all city offices for which candidates were nominated at the recent primary and few besid'-s the candidates will vote. “I don’t like this small vote.” said W. Z. Smith, nominated to succeed to himself as general manager of the city waterworks. “Someone is liable to slip to the polls with a few hun dred votes the last hour of the day and carry the election. I wish my friends would go to the polls ” The other candidates Join Mr. Smith in this request. Husband Unruly? It's the Weather CHICAGO, Dec 8.—One hundred and fifteen warrants have been sworn out by women against men in the Court of Domestic Relations in the last ten days—twice the usual num ber. Couaattaehes sav gloomy weather is the ftiuse of domestic troubles. NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—The New York American prints the following to-day: “Georgia is probably this year the most prosperous State in the Union,' declared Governor John M. Slaton, of Georgia, yesterday at the Waldorf- Astoria. “This is no exaggeration. The vice president of the National Park Bank of this city, which has been the cor respondent for the State of Georgia for many years, remarked to me to day that he could assert conserva tively that Georgia wa9 more pros perous than any other State. “The cotton crop has been enor mous—one bale for every man. woman and child in the State, black or white In other States the production of cotton has been limited. In conse quence, the price is high, and Geor gia is getting the benefits of bumper crops and high prices. Tells of Products. “We have also raised this year more foodstuff than ever before and do not have to rely, as heretofore, upon the Western States. We produced eighty million bushels of cbm. Just be fore I came to New York I had am ple opportunity to learn the situation by personal observation. I made a tour of the State, visiting the county fairs. “Everybody In Georgia has con tributed to the year’s prosperity. While the farmer exhibited his cot ton and corn and products of the smokehouse, his wife exhibited her preserves, pickles, sauces, Jellies, etc., and the girls in the canning clubs showed how they make as high as $150 out of one-tenth of an acre.” Governor Slaton became enthu siastic when asked if scientific farm ing was being introduced in his State. “Our agricultural colleges are do ing great work in that direction,” he replied “The results are more than grat ifying. Should the boll weevil Invade Georgia as it has Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, we will prepared to meet the situation by early planted cotton, by getting the most resistive cotton and by diver sification of the crops. Atmosphere of Good Cheer. Reverting to the prosperity of the farmers, Governor Slaton said that his only fear was that' they might become extravagant in the prodigality of their resources. “I come from an atmosphere of optimism and good cheer,” he as serted. “The Atlanta Georgian, Mr. Hearst’s paper in our State, is popular and prospering,” he said. “It knows the ideals of the people and their aspi rations. It has always been prompt in rendering assistance to the needy of Atlanta and the State of Georgia, purely from a patriotic standpoint, and I am glad to pay this tribute to it.” When asked the object of his visit to Now' York Governor Slaton said it related to legislation to be passed to refund $3,679,0000 of the State indebt edness which falls due in the sum mer of 1915. Confidence in State. “Our Constitution does not permit the creation of any State debt at an,” he said, “nor does it permit the in crease of the bonded indebtedness We have reduced the bonds from $11,000- 000 to $6,000,000; and we have a rail road running from Atlanta to Chat tanooga that is pledged by the Con stitution for anv debt of the Sta'e. So you will perceive that we respect our obligations and have ^ample se- | curlty. 'But what is equal to It all is the product in the form of manhood. Last summer when I wished to borrow half a million dollars for the State until the taxes came In, the bankers were paying 6 per cent In New York. The bankers in Georgia loaned the money to me for i per cent, indicating their patriotism and absolute confidence in the State.” VOTE FIGHT PUT UP TO Youthful chicken fancier with aristocratic bird. The young man is Charles Lynch, 295 E. Hunter street, and his companion is the 16-ounce Luff Cochin Bantam hen owned by John L. Ryan, of Atlanta. Workman's Toes Are Cut Off When Shaft Of Lift Collapses In a collapse of a portion of eleva tor shaft in the building occupied by the McCori-Stewart wholesale gro cery company, No. 211 Decatur street, late Wednesday, B. H. Dunn. 43 years old, a repairman, was seriously in jured by falling timber. One of Dunn's toes was amputated; his left hand l&soerated, and he suffered scalp wounds. He was rush ed to the Grady Hospital. Dunn was repairing the top of the elevator cage when the accident oc curred. It Is believed the hammering jarred the framework of the shaft and loosened a portion of it, which fell on him. Boy Slayer Given To Mother's Care Frank Barton. 13 years old, 1s back with his mother, Mrs. M. J. Taylor, of No. 24 Mildred avenue, Wednes day, after spending five months locked up in the Juvenile detention home on Central avenue, where he was taken after being arrested for the killing of his young playmate, Johnnie Edgar, last July. Attorney Carl N. Guess appeared before Judge Benjamin Hill, of the criminal division of the Superior Court, late Tuesday afternoon and se cured the release of the boy. He will be placed in the custody of his mother until he is tried on the murder charge. Bryan Will Speak On‘The People's Rule’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 — A long list of prominent Washington officials is Included among the sDeakers on the official program of the first national conference on popular government, to be held in this city. December 6. Secretary of State.Bryan will speak on “The People's Rul*. How to Make It a Fact.” JJ Prizes were awarded Wednesday at the annual show of the Southern In ternational Poultry Association in the Aliditorlum. It was the unanimous statement of the Judges that they never had viewed a better class of birds at any show in the South. The lion's share of the awards went to Georgia fanciers, w r ho are improv ing every year in the class of poultry shown. Other States, however, were largely represented. “I don’t think this show ever was excelled in any city in the South,” was the declaration of T. M. Poole, secretary of the association, at the conclusion of the judging Wednesday. Here is the list of awards: Single-comb Buff Orpingtons. G. V. # Clark, Louisville. Oa., first cockerel, second cock, third cock; Mrs. L, L. Upson, Athens, Ga.. fourth pen, fourth cock, second hen, fifth cockerel, second pullet; William Cook & Rons, Scratch Plains, N. J., first cock, third hen, second cockerel, fourth pullet, third pert; L. T. Bogus*, I Oxford, Ga., first hen, fifth hen; W. | J. McDonald, Monroe, Ga., third cock erel, first pullet, second pen; A. V. Clifton. Atlanta, fourth cockerel: M. G. Turner. Covington, Ga., fourth hen; Morris & Bags. Atlanta, fourth pullet; Jordan Poultry Farm. Royston, Ga., fifth pullet; College Vipw Farm, College Park, fifth pen, Mrs. J. M. Hart, College Park, first pen, fifth cock. Single Comb White Orpingtons. E. L. Allison, Columbia, S. C., fourth cock; Frank Riddle, Birmingham, Ala., fifth hen, fifth cockerel; William j Cook & Sons, Scratch Plains, N. J., first cock, first cockerel, fifth pullet, third pen; Mrs. L. P. Eberhart, Ei- berton, Oa., first hen, second pullet, third pullet, first pen, second pen; Aldrich Poultry Farm, Columbus, Ohio, second cock, fourth hen, third hen, fourth cockerel, third cockerel, first pullet; H. A. Black, C’artersvill ?, Ga., third cock, fifth cock, second cockerel, second hen, fourth pen, fifth pen. Black Minorcas. M. L, Babb, Dallas, Ga. third cock erel. Southern States Duck and Poul try Farm, College Park, (Ja. second* hen; College View Farm. College j Park, fourth pullet, fifth pullet; W. P. j Me Elroy, Newnan, Ga., second cock- i RACING RESULTS Continued on Page 12, Column 5. AT CHARLESTON. FIRST—Six furlongs: Ann Tilly, 104 (McToggart), 1-3, 1-8, out, won; Chartler 117 (Obert), 6, 4-6, 1-3. sec ond; Pikes Peak, 104 (Randolph), 60, 10. 6-2, third. Time, 1:16 1-5. Also ran: Golden Treaure. Monkey, Eurl of Savoy. SECOND—Six furlongs: Lace, 109 (Nathan), 3-2 1-2, out, won, Right Easy, 109 (Deronde), 8-5, 2-5, out, sec ond. Dick Deadwood, 112 (Martin), 20, 6, 2 third. Time, 1:15 3-5. Also ran: Ancon, York Lad, Mama John son. THIRD—Six and half furlongs: Doctor Kendall, 103 (Buxton), 2, 3-5, out. won, Rulsseau, 129 (J. Hanover) 50, 10, 3, second; Harcourt, 129 (Bur lingame), 5-2, 7-10, out, third. Time 1:23. Also ran: John Hancock. Ella Curry. Plain Ann. FOURTH—Five and half furlongs: Winning Witch. 115 (Keogh), 6-5, out, won; Lady Lightning, 110 (Deronde), 3-4, out, second; Marshon, 113 (Mar tin), 50, 10, even, third. Time, 1:09. Also ran: Jack Kellogg. FIFTH Six and half furlongs: Be hest, 96 (M( Taggart). 7-2, even, 1-2, won; Camel, 132 (Rklrvin), 10, 3, even, second; Chas. Cannell, 95 (Ward), 2. 4-5, 2-6, third. Time, 1:24. Also ran; No manager, Ben Prior, Lady Innocence, Yankee Pooh. Rrce Entries on Page 10. Clarence Collins Found Not Guilty Clarence Collins was found not guilty of thre urder of Calvin Maddox, a negor, after the Jury was out an hour Wednesday afternoon. The case went to the Jury at 1 o’clock, aPer a two-hour address by Solicitor Gen •ral Dorsey in the final argument be fore Judge Hill. The case was the outgrowth of an alleged quarrel between Collins and the negro during the construction of th«* Healy Building, on which the two men were employed. Ask County Police To Protect Game A plea for the assistance of the county police in the enforcement of game laws, and asking permission to appoint the members of the county force as deputy game wardens, was made before the Board of County Commissioners Wednesday by fi&m- missloner Charles L. Davis. » f Hardwick, of Goergia, Quoted bj Jane Addams in Speech Before House Committee. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The mft. frngist convention late to-day unani mously decided to carry its fight tot an amendment to the Constitution, enfranchising women, direct to th* White House and demand of Presi dent Wilson that he make the ques tion a party measure and give is precedence over other legislation. A resolution presented by Mrs. Med ill McCormick, of Chicago, asks the President to send a special mes sage to Congress at this session urg ing Congress to get immediate action on the proposed amendment. Mrs. Medill McCormick and Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, of , Lexington Ky., were designated a committee to Immediately present the resolution to President Wilson. As the two women left the auditorium with the resolu tion the cry was raised: “4,000,000 Make Plea” “The President must heed the de mand of 4,000,000 women voters.” Nearly 2,000 suffragists and anti-* suffragists crowded into the great caucus room in the House office building to-day and massed in the corridors primed for their fight bsfore the House Rules Committee for and against a House Committee on Wom an Suffrage. Two hours were allot ted the suffragists to present theif claims, and two hours to the “antis’* to answer the arguments of their op ponents. As soon as Chairman Henry had | called the meeting to order Represen- j tatlve Clyde Kelly, a PenneyIvanis j Progressive, offered a resolution that | all meetings of the committee on the j question of woman suffrage be pub- i lie and that all records be published. Cites Suffrage Parade, Representative Lenroot, of Wiscon sin, offered an amendment, which was accepted, giving the committee right to hold executive sessions when it saw r fit, but making the record votes of the committee public at all times. Representative Kelly’s original mo tion was lost by a vote of 6 to 1. When Mr. Kelly voted a number of women tried to vote with him, and this called forth a reprimand from Chairman Henry. “If there is any disorder, I will or der the room cleared,’’ he said. Chairman Henry then turnsd ths session over to Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who introduced the various speakers, and cautioning her women friends to restrain their enthusiasm Indians Treated Better. Dr. Shaw told how' unsuccessful the suffragettes have been in procuring recognition at the hands of Congres sional committees, and then intro duced Mrs. Helen Gardiner, of Wash ington, as the first speaker. Mrs. Gardiner argued that Congress bad treated the Indians better than the women of the country. “At one time,” she said, “there was no Indian Committee in this House. One was created and since then the Indians have been geting school* and other things they deserved. Are these Indians any more important to you legislators than your wives, sis ters and mothers? We want a com mittee of our own to which we can go at any time with absolute free dom.” She concluded by saying: “Patrick Henry once said: ‘Give me liberty or give me death,’ and he meant what he said. The women of this country mean the same thing to-day.” For Closed Sessions. Mr*. Ida Husted Harper, of New York, pleaded earnestly with the committee for a favorable report on the suffrage committee resolution. “You have not forgotten the woman suffrage parade in Washington last spring,” she said, “when troops from Fort Myer had to be summoned to protect the women from the mob whch closed In on them. If you could have been in that procession and could have looked into the faoea of that jeering, insulting, half drunken line of men, you would have reaped what the mothers, daughters ^And wives of this country are subjt*P|e<i