Newspaper Page Text
W* *
NOTICE
If you have any difficulty in buying Heart* '
Sunday American anywhere In the South notify
f* UunuurMr liicjrHt'a Qiinrlai/ i triurff‘uri
t Sunday American anywhere In the South notify .
I circulation Manager, Hearat's Sunday American, j
j Atlanta. Ga. j
VOL. 1. NO. 36.
Copyright, 1911, by
The Georgian Company.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DANIELS IS
Insisting Also Sixteen Destroyers.
Eigtit Submarines, Two Gun
boats Needed, Navy Board S^ys
Small Fleet Will Bring War.
Man Born to Chase
Growler and Love/
Says‘Wittiest Maid’
Her Negative Answer to 'Should
Women Propose?’ Wins Prize
In Virginia Contest.
Salas Builds Wall
Across Railroad in
A Battle for Land
Secretary Expresses Belief That
Budget Can Not Afford So Many
Dreadnoughts — Would Take
Initiative for “Naval Holiday.”
RICHMOND, VA„ Dec. 6.—Miss
Nell R. Lee Murphy, of this city, pro
nounced by .General Bennett H.
Young,* of Louisville, commander of
the Grand Camp, United Confederate
Veterans, the wittiest girl in the
South, has been awarded first prize
in a contest here for the best an
swer to the question "Should Women
Propose?”
Her answer follows:
"Let man propose forever! Cheap
gifts are lightly treasured. Man most
admires in woman modesty. Without
respect love dies. From the growler
to love, man is constituted to chase.
If the bride must be given away, let
father do It. In Old Virginia, at least,
God forbid the bride unsought will
ever give herself away, for *de fruit
dat draps afore ’tie shook am apt
to be too mellow’.' ”
Miss Murphy has been a belle at
several reunions, having made her
debut at the meeting of the grand
camp in Mobile in the spring of 1910.
STOPS ILL HI
Naval Stores Man Also Defies City.
Fear of Mine Leaves Him
Victorious.
New Anesthesia Does Away With
Ether and Danger to Patient
* It Entails.
SUBJECT REMAINS AWAKE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. — Two
dreadnoughts, eight destroyers and
three submarines are the recommen
dations made by Secretary Daniels in
his first annual report to the Presi
dent.
The recommendations of the Navy
General Board, which are appended to
the report, call for four battleships,
sixteen destroyers, eight submarines,
a tender, two oilers, two gunboats, a
transport, one supply ship and one
hospital ship.
Admirai Dewey vigorously upholds
the four-battleship program and op
poses the Secretary in no uncertain
tone.
Secretary Daniels believes the pro
gram he advocates to be as heavy as
the revenues of the Government will
permit. He says:
Likes Churchill Idea.
"The revenues of the country do
rot permit so large an expansion in
ziava; buildmg as the department
might desire to enter upon at this
time.'’ '
Mr. Daniels indorses the sugges
tion of Winston Churchill for a "na
val holiday." He says:
The suggestion of a vacation for
Girl Ushers Only at
Suffragette Wedding
Dec. 6.—“The suffrage
wedding" wa« introduced at the mar
riage service of Miss Frances Golds
worthy to Dr. William S. Timbltn in
Windsor Park Memorial Baptist
Church.
In planning the personnel of her
bridal party, Miss Goldsworthy out
forward the resolution: “Be it foe-
solved, That girls make better ush
ers than men.” Affirmative, asserted
by the bride; negative—more or less
—by the bridegroom. ✓
So ten young women members of
Delta Beta Phi ushered to their seats
the some 200 guests at the Timblin-
Goldsworthy wedding.
‘Rube’ Marquard Is
Sued on $1,000 Note
CHICAGO. Dec. 6.—"Rube"
quard, pitcher for the New
Giants, and Blossom Seeley
quard, his wife, with whom
Mar-
York
Mar-
he is
playing in a vaudeville sketch in the
one year in battleship building has Palace Music Hall, are defendants in
a $1,000 suit, filed in the Municipal
Court by Joseph Kane, Mrs. Mar
met with hearty approval, and I ven
ture the' earnest hope that this will
bear fruit in a well-considered plan
by navy-building nations not to let
the unnecessary competition go to
further lengths.
Contending for a continuing build
ing policy, Admiral Dewey, speaking
through the general board, says:
The general board does not be
lieve the nation stands ready to aban
don or modify any of its well-estab
lished national policies, and repeats
ils position that the naval policy of
tho country should be to possess a
fleet powerful enough to prevent or
answer any challenge to these poli
cies.
Strength Needed Varies.
“The absolute strength necessary to
accomplish this is a question that de
pends upon the national policies of
prospective challengers and the force
tiify can bring against us. and hence
is relative and varies with their naval
policies and building program.
The forecast of the board with re
gard ro naval development in other
countries has proved remarkably ac
curate. The absence of any definite
naval policy on our part, except in
the general board, and the failure of
tiie people, the Congress and the ex
ecutive Government to recognize the
necessity for such a policy, has al
ready placed us in a position of infe*
quard’s former husband, for aliena
tion of his wife’s affections.
"Kane recovered a judgment of $4.
000." said Attorney Lowenthal. ‘‘Mar
quard paid him $3,000 and gave his
note for the remainder. He has fail
ed to pay the note."
Boys Quit Smoking
To Save Schoolmate
Study of Nerve Centers and Zones
Enables Physician to Develop
Wonderful System,
and
and
I'iority which may lead to war;
this inferiority is progressive
"'ll continue to increase until the ne-
°ssity for a definite policy is recog*
nized and that policy put into oper
ation.
Calls Hopes Futile.
"The general board, white adher
ing to the policy it has consistent’/
followed for the last ten years, and
believing that the naval needs of the
nation call for a fleet of 48 ships of
' < first line in 1920, recognizes con-
d ions as they exist and the futility
of hoping or expecting that the ships
a nd men its policy calls for will he
provided by 1920.
The general board believes that
’he people, with full understanding of
**■ meaning of and reasons for naval
power, will instruct the legislative
orancii of the Government, and that
• hat bianch. with the same under -
standing, will provide the means.
Suggests Publicity.
If the people, having been given
’he meaning of and the reasons for
t aval pow er, fail to instruct the Con
gress. the responsibility and the re
sulting material loss and national hu
miliation rests upon them; and if the
' ongress, having been instructed by
toe people, fails to provide the means,
then the responsibility is theirs.
The general board believes that
' nly a lack of understanding of these
v iews by the people at large pre
vents l\\e adoption of a consistent na
val policy, and recommends to the
■'epawment a system of extended pub
' it> in all matters relating to naval
p'»!i( > acting through patriotic or
Kanizations. the press, or by whatever
means a knowledge of the naval needs
'* ’he nation may be brought home
" tne people of the country, with the
meaning and reasons for them."
COFFEYVILLE, KANS., Dec. 1.—
To save their schoolmate, Robert
Murray, from a sentence to the State
Industrial School in the Juvenile
Court, every boy pupil at the Mc
Kinley School at CoffeyviLle signed a
pledge to abandon the use of tobacco
in every form.
Upon the strength of this pledge
and a petition appea4ing for leniency,
Probate Judge Osborn consented to
give Robert another chance.
Wes'Edwards, Feud
Leader, Seriously Ill
RICHMOND. VA, Dec. 6.—Suffer-
ing from tuberculosis. Wesley Ed
wards. serving 27 years in the Vir
ginia penitentiary for his part in the
Hillsville Court tragedy, was removed
to the State farm, where the doctors
hope the fresh air and work in the
open will restore him to health.
Edwards, with three other members
of the mountain clan who drew prison
terms, has been working ii the prison
shoe shop.
Triplets for Pastor,
Ladies' Aid Is Busy
, EVANSVILLE, IND.. Dec. 6.—The
Ladies' Aid Society of the Simpson
M. E. Church was hastily called in
special session to-day when word was
received that the wife of Rev. Henry-
triplets. two hoys and a girt.
Simmons had presented him with
Preparations had been made for but
one child, and a hurry-up order for
clothing resulted.
HARTFORD. CONN., Dec. 6.—In
the presence of 24 prominent sur
geons of this city. Dr. William H.
Fitzgerald, an ear and throat special
ist of this city, who formerly prac
ticed in New York City’, demonstrated
a new’ anesthesia at St. Francis' Hos
pital this afternoon.
Instead of using drugs or gas Dr.
Fitzgerald applies pressure to the
nerves. He has used the method oc
casionally in his private practice with j
satisfactory results, but has only just j
developed it /, a point where he
would use it .n general hospital prac
tice.
Studies Nerve Zones.
The method of anesthesia practiced
by Dr. Fitzgerald is based on the
known fact that there are, areas in
the nose, throat and mouth that are
highly sensitive and which contain
delicate and intricate nerve sources.
It was by study of the zones that Dr.
Fitzgerald worked out his discovery,
the method of applying which he
demonstrated in so startling a w r ay at
the clinic.
The physician selected several pa
tients as subjects fyr his tests. In
one case he anesthetized the hand of
a woman so that pins w’ere thrust
into the flesh in several places, and
she felt not the slightest pain though
fully conscious.
In another case a foot was anes
thetized and fifteen incisions made
without the slightest pain. Two teeth
were painlessly extracted.
Punctures Ear Drum.
In still another case, after produc
ing an anesthetized condition, the
physician punctured a subject's ear
drum without any sensation of pain.
The puncturing of an ear drum is
generally regarded as one of the most
painful of operations.
Another test w’as even more start
ling. After producing a condition of
anesthetization the physician removed
a foreign object from the subject's
eye, and then, to the amazement of
his watchers, drew a scalpel lightly
across the patient's eye. In this case,
as in the others, the patient suffered
not the slightest sensation of pain.
This demonstration by Dr. Fitzger
ald w T as a sequel to one which he
gave at the hospital two weeks ago.
in which he showed the preliminary
steps in the use of the method.
Relieves Pain by Pressure.
By pressure on the neck the phy
sician produced sensations in various
parts'of the body and demonstra ted
that acute pain in any section may be
relieved quickly by mere pressure.
There are several advantages to be
gained by the use of reflex anes
thesia as demonstrated. In the first
place the use of dangerous anes
thetics like ether is avoided.
In spite of the general use of ether,
its administration is still accompa
nied by danger, except in the hands
of an expert. It is sometimes said
deaths were caused by operations,
when a stricter statement of the truth
would be that they w’ere due to the
anesthesia.
This danger is avoided when a
method of anesthesia is used which
avoids all use of drugs or gases.
In the case of minor (iterations,
such as the removal of splinters, the
use of the local anesthesia avoids the
necessity for administering ether,
which requires twenty minutes or
more, though the actual operation can
be performed in 30 seconds.
Well Known Writer.
Dr. Fitzgerald is a native of Mid-
dletow’n and is recognized as a leading
specialist of the Slate in treatment of
the nose and throat.
He was graduated from the Univer
sity of Vermont, was in the Boston
City’ Hospital three years, and stu
died in Europe four years, lie is an
associate member of the New York
Academy of Medicine and a frequent
contributor to professional magazines.
SAVANNAH, Dec. 8.— R. S Sa.a*.
wealthy’ naval stores and fertilizer
man. is becoming famous in Savan
nah in a three-cornered row with the
city and the Central of Georgia Rail
way
Salas recently purchased extensive
water frontage. In doing so he got
a sidetrack belonging to the Central
of Georgia Railway and a lane be
longing to the cijfcy. He immediately
started closing the lane and tearing
up the cobble stones, but an injunc
tion stopped him. He then tore up
the Central of Georgia tracks, and
built a thick w’all across the open
ing. The company sent a switch en
gine and knocked the wall down. He
has now erected across the opening a
sign the size of a large billboard
warning the railroad not to again
Jacksonville Girl Called ‘Coming Nordica ’
*!*••!• •!•••!• *£*••'• *r*v •!•••!* •*!*
Voice Excelled Farrar ’s Be f ore She Studied
trespass on his property’.
Just what plans he has made he
would not say, but so sure are the
company employees that he nas
planted a mine, that no one will take
an engine in.
Mother Fears Arctic
Explorer Is Dead
CHICAGO, Dec. <1.—University of Chi
cago friends of Ernest DeKoven Lef-
fingwell. a student at the Midway In
stitution, fear he has lost his life on his
final dash for the North Pole. A tele
gram was received yesterday at the
university from Lefflngwell's mother,
who is in Pasadena. Cal.
She telegraphed she had not heard
from her son since August 25. and thar
he was to have returned from Point
Barrow. Alaska, by November 1.
In the spring of this year Leffingwell
joined the Steffansson expedition. He
had promised his parents that this would
be his lapt arctic trip.
I Shot Him to Save
My Life,’ Cries Wife
Builds Extra Strong
Home for Big Family
Burns 30 Buildings
To Hear Fire Bells
NEWCASTLE. WYQ., Dec. ‘L
killed Jim because he intended ,to kill
me. There was nothing else for me
to do,” s*id Sarah Seudder, justify
ing the shooting of her husband,
.lames Seudder. at a sawmill camp
near Upton.
Mrs. Seudder sent a bullet through
Seudders head. He died nin^ hours
later without regaining consciousness.
Mrs. Seudder is held in the county-
jail without bail and will be tried for
murder in the first degree. She is
said to have killed another husband
and a woman sin Texas.
After Prayers, Man,
Long Invalid, Walks
CEXTR ALIA, ILL., Dec. 6.—A
case of "divine healing” is attracting
a great deal of interest here.
Revival meetings have been in
progress. Charles Tate, an invalid
for four years, was carried to the
service in his chair. He asked for
the prayers of the congregation.
Before morning Mrs. Tate was able
to walk, according to his friends.
When Mr. Tate appeared at the
services the next evening and walked
down the aisle, the congregation was
elated.
TO BESIE9
CHRISTMAS
Though Huerta Continues To Be
Defiant, His Officers Are Forcing
Women to Enlist in His Army
and Men Recruits Are Trapped.
Chihuahua. Occupied by the Reb
els as a Base, Is Happy Over
Escaping Fighting — Federal
Army Fleeing Toward the South.
Undraped Posing
Causes Stir in Paris
Cabinet Minister’s ex-Wife Seen in
Artistic “Studies” by Lead
ers of Art World.
PARIS. Dec. 6.—A social sensation has
been caused here by the undraped plas
tic poses by Madam Valentine DeSaint
Point, the diVorced wife of a French
cabinet minister, granddaughter of the
Marquis DesGi&ns DeCessiat, and a de
scendant of the poet and historian. I/a-
martine.
The spectacle was given in her huge
studio. No. 19, Avenue DeTourville, in
the Champs DeMars quarter. Some
three hundred invitations were sent out
to leading men and women in the liter
ary and artistic world. There was not
a single refusal.
Madame DeSaint Point, who Is known
as Madame Valentine, has a petite fig
ure. pale blue eyes and a mass of chest
nut hair. She is also a writer of books
and plays, as well as a talented painter.
Cousin
of Lillie Lehman Plans to In' 'do
European Music Centers.
Minister Arrested
On Bigamy Charge
CHAMBERSBURG, PA., Dec. 6.—
Just as he w-as stepping into a church
at Greensprings, Cumberland County,
the Rev. Thomas J. Hilton, a Mennon-
ite clergyman of Plattsburg. Mo., was
arrested by Sheriff George Walker,
of Franklin County, on a charge of
bigamy’.
After Hilton was on his way lo jail
here he remarked, the police say, that
“trigamy" might as well be the name
of his offense, for he had three wives,
rather than two.
Town Puts Its Ban
On All Sunday Work
French Doctor Has
New Typhoid Cure
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS. Dec. 6. — A successful new
method of curing typhoid fever is an
nounced by Dr. Josue Bellar. It is called
auto-vaecination. The vaccine is a cul
ture of bacilli made of the patient's own
blood.
After culture in sterilized heat. 200,-
000,000 germs are injected. If after five
days treatment the temperature is still
high, a further Injection of 200,000.000
germs is made
AURORA. ILL., Dec*. 6.—No resi
dent of this city will be allowed to
work on Sunday or keep open nls
place of business on Sunday, except
those who conscientiously obser/e
some other day of each week as th»
Sabbath, or in case of necessity, under
an ordinance passed hv the City
Council.
The ordinance was passed to ap
pease the barbers, most of whom fa
vor Sunday closing.
Genevieve Clark
To Be Housekeeper
JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 6.— MIbs
Ruby Lehman Leyser. of this city,
has won fame as a singer and is de
scribed by noted music masters as
the “coming Nordica of America. It
is declared she has a voice, which,
even at the beginning of its culture,
was superior to that of Geraldine
Farrar.
Miss Leyser is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. S. H. Leyser and was heard
under the auspices of the Friday
Morning Musicals two years ago. She
possesses a wonderful soprano voice
and it is her hope to invade Paris.
Berlin, London and other musirnl
centers of Europe after another win
ter of study under the leading mas
ters of New York.
Not only does she possess a voice
of birdlike quality, but Miss 1-eyser
is gifted with rare charm And wom
anly beauty, characteristic of the
State in which she w'as born—Ken
tucky. With her beauty this belle of
the Blue Grass State is winsome and
affable, and her friends here believe
that the future holds great promise
for her.
Miss Leyser has been undergoing
rigid training in Chicago, New York
and Canada for the last seven years.
Her studies have been pursued under
such master as Buzz! Peccia and W.
S. Brady. She is a cousin of Lillie
Lehman, the great German artist,
and Blanche Lehman, leader in mu
sical circles of Louisville.
Young Belmont May
Have to Tell Income
WASHINGTON. Dec 6.—Speak, r
and Mrs. Champ Clark have taken a
house on Massachusetts avenue
which will prove one of the centers
of official society this winter.
The household presiding genius is
to be Miss Genevieve Champ Clark,
their attractive debutante daughter,
w ho will apply the principles of mod
ern domestic science I the servant
and housekeeping problems.
One of the first entertainments to
be given in the house will be on Net,
Year's Day, when .Vliss Clark will bo
presented to society.
NEW YORK, Dec fi.—Raymond
Belmont, son of August Belmont, will
have to appear in the Supreme Court
and tell from what sources he de
rives his income, if Justice Gieberich
decides in favor of an application
made to-day by Edith Lorraine Bel
mont. She Is the actress wife of Ray
mond. having married him a year
ago.
Mrs. Belmont is suing her husband
for separation. Her attorneys want
to know who gives Raymond money
and how much he is receiving. The
young husband is said to be in Eng
land at present. The trial of the sep
aration action was adjourned for two
w r eeks, to permit the court to pass on
the new' application.
Wed 20 Years and
Divorced 20, Remarry
SABILLASVILLE. MD.. Dec
Neighbors of Theodore Colvin Wills are
congratulating him on the completion
of a new home built to withstand the
tremendous weight of his family .
Th*» Wills family, with seventeen ac-
jjvp members, weighs more than a ton
and a liaif.
WINONA, MINN. Dot. 6 The
thought of the wild clanging of the
fire bells, the rising smoke and the
reddening heavens was too much for
me. I burned over 3“ buildings be
cause the excitement whs irresisti
ble." said Frank Norton to the Wi
nona police.
Italy Buys Warship
Built for Brazil
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. Dee. 6.—The Daily Tele
graph publisher* the report that Italy has
purchased the Brazilian dreadnought
Kio Janeiro.
BINGHAMTON. Dec. ♦>.—The mar
riage of Mrs. Laura Perkins, of Ox-
ford. and Andrew Keyes, of this city,
m Oxford, revealed a romance.
port\ rears ago they wore married
and lived together twenty years, after
which the wife obtained a divorce.
Recent l> they met accidentally amt
decided to remarry.
Real Bird Christmas
On J. W. Kern Estate
WASHINGTON. Dec. *». Senator and
Mrs. John W Kern will give a unique
party on Christmas Day for the birds
that live in and around Kern Cliffe,
their Virginia/ country home.
Mrs. Kern has purchased a number
of tiny baskets to fill with goodies dear
to the bird heart. These will be sus
pended from tree branches. Bird houses
will be placed on the grounds for a holi
day shelter.
Husband Replies to
‘Perfect Foot' Wife
_ OMAHA, NFTRR., Dec. 6.—That
Mrs. Clara S. Houston, the Chicago
woman of "perfect foot" fame suing
Nat C. Houston, of Omaha, vice
president of the Great Western Com
mission Company, for divorce and
$10,000 alimony. Induced her husband
to.marry while he was in a weaken
ed state of health owing to the sud
den death of his first wife is the al
legation filed by him in the District
Court.
He also alleges Mrs. Houston con
stantly demanded money, but told
him he must not touch or come near
her. she demanding $150 a month
'“pin" money
Art Works Demanded
Of Millionaire Clark
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6. —In a unit on
file to-day the United Stales District
Court is requested to summon Eli P.
Clark, a millionaire laud holder of l/os
Angeles, upon a date yet to be set. ami
require him to show' cause why he
should not deliver twelve paintings to
I Frank McKay, trustee for the bankrupt
hart concern of Tomlinson-Humes, Inc.,
of Chicago.
The paintings are said be the work
! ,»f William Hogarth, and comprise the
‘ "Industry and Idleness senes.
Special Cable to The Amertcan.
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 6.—Drtven to
desperate straits by the related vic
tories of the apparently invincible
rebels. Federal forces in the capital
are working frantically against the
time when "Pancho" Villa, ruthless
rebel leader, will carry out his threat
of conquest and pillage of the ancient
city.
Villa’s word lias preceded him In
his march southward from Juarez:
“I will have 20,000 men surrounding
Mexico City by Christmas Day,” he
promised. "Our forces will grow as
we march southward, and by the time-
we reach the capital the, people in
the city will be ready to join us.”
Federal Soldiers Desert.
And the Federals are almost ready
to accept his threat as an accurate
prophesy. Villa seems unconquerable.
The Federal forces are depleted,
mostly through desertions, and the
authorities have been forced to the
most unusual methods of recruiting.
For one thing, they have conscript
ed servant girls by the score for a
detachment of women soldiers. In
the capital servant girts are fearful of
walking on the streets, knowing that
many of their friends have been
forced to service under the Federal
banneoL
Men have ceased to enlist volun
tarily in the Federal army. There
fore, the officers are compelled Lo ob
tain involuntary recruits. The favor
ite method is to have parties of able-
bodied men arrested by the police, on
flimsy charges, and then to intimi
date them into enlistment. An ex
traordinary trick was worked a taw
days ago. A moving picture theater
was posted with placards bearing the
alluring promise that the show with
in was for men only. (Bowing pic
tures of the entertainment were
drawn by suggestion. Naturally, men
thronged the house, laughing with an
ticipation.
Unwilling Recruits Trapped.
Once they were within, the doors
behind were closed, and a number
of religious pictures were thrown up
on the screen. The first was the fa
miliar “The Virgin of Guadalupe.” the
patron saint of Mexico. The crowd
was good-natured at first, thinking
this initial picture a mere spectacle
from which a contrast was to be
drawn. But then came another reli
gious picture, and another, all of them
reproductions of well-known paint
ings. The men. w'ho had come ex
pecting a different sort of entertain
ment. began to grow’ restless, and
then later to start an angry uproar.
The police were upon them almost
with the first shout, and off they
marched 65 men to the prison. Once
there and locked behind the bars, the
men were forced to enlist.
To such expedients the Federal®
are being driven, and in the ranks
there are many who have lost heart
and who are ready to desert at the
first opportunity. And not only to
men in the ranks, but to high offi
cials and authorities, the feeling ■>£
impending disaster seeins fastened.
Huerta Alone Is Defiant.
To all except ^Victoriano Huerta.
Provisional President, and the bane
of the United States. Huerta is as
resolutely defiant as ever, and is ap
parently hopeful of ultimate success
for the Federals.
"I have no intention of yielding,"
he stated yesterday. “Should the
fighting in Mexico continue for years,
I will continue to do my part if 1
am alive."
Huerta was encouraged a little by
the proclamation of the United States
authorities announcing their policy of
continued neutrality concerning Mex
ican affairs It is know n that in .his
heart, he feared, just as the other
H M
ivl.