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XTRA SUN Y'OL. 1. NO. 36. opyrlgl . . The Georgian Com pan T ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1«)13. OEWEY FOP AILS IS Insisting Also Sixteen Destroyers. Eight Submarines, Two Gun boats Needed, Navy Board Says Small Fleet Will Bring War. Secretary Expresses Belief That Budget Can Not Afford So Many Dreadnoughts — Would Take Initiative for “Naval Holiday.” 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 Hoard, which are appended to the report, call for four battleships, sixteen destroyers, eight submarines, a tender, two oilers, two gunboats, a i-ansport, 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 not permit so large an expansion in naval building as the department might desire to enter upon at this lime.” Mr. Daniels indorses the sugges tion of Winston Churchill for a “na- >a 1 holiday.” He says: The suggestion of a vacation for one year in battleship building has met with hearty approval, and 1 ven ture the earnest hope that this will near fruit in a well-considered plan by navy-building nations not to let the unnecessary’ competition go to further lengths. Contending for a continuing bulki ng policy, Admiral Dewey, speaking through the general board, says: ‘The general board does not be- iieve the nation stands ready to aban don or modify any of its well-estab lished national policies, and repeats its position that the naval policy of the 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 or prospective challengers and the force they 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 to naval development In other countries has proved remarkably ac- ; urate. The absence of any’ definite naval policy on our part, except in the general board, and the failure of the 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 riority which may lead to war; and this inferiority is progressive and will continue to increase until the ne- 1 essity for a definite policy is recog nized and that policy put into oper ation. Calls Hopes Futile. “The general board, while adher ing to the policy it has consistently followed for the last ten years, and believing that the naval needs of the nation call for a fleet of 48 ships of ne first line in 1920, recognizes con ations as they exist and the futility •f hoping or expecting that the ships ind 1H021 its policy calls for will be provided hv 1920. >*ne g-Treirtl ooaro believes that 1P people, with full understanding of me meaning of and reasons for naval power, will instruct the legislative “ranch of the Government, and that hat branch, with the same under- * anding. will provide the means. Suggests Publicity. If the people, having been given ’ fie meaning of and the reasons for naval power, fail to instruct the Con gress, the responsibility and the re sulting material loss and national hu miliation rests upon them: and if the Congress, having been instructed by ie people, fails to provide the means, hen the responsibility is theirs. “The general board believes that only a lack of understanding offthes* 'lews by the people at large pre sents the adoption of a consistent na val policy, and recommends to the lepartment a system of extended pub 11 it.' in all matters relating to naval policy, acting through patriotic or ganizations. the press, or by whatever UK-ans a knowledge of the naval needs °f tne nation may be brought home 1 “ the people of the country, with the ! 'if nning and reasons for them. ’ 'Man Born to Chase Growler and Love/ Says‘Wittiest Maid’ Her Negative Answer to ‘Should Women Propose?’ Wins Prize in Virginia Contest. RICHMOND, VA„ Dec. 6.—Miss Nell R. Dee 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 ’tis 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. Girl Ushers Only at Suffragette Wedding t n ■ vJagO. Dec. 6.—“The suffrage redding” was introduced at the mar riage service of Miss Frances Golds worthy to Dr. William S. Timblin 1n Windsor Park Memorial Baptist Church. In planning the personnel of her bridal party, Miss Goldsworthy put forward the resolution: “Be it Re 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. •i Tale Is Fiction. She Says, and Preseton Arnot Is a “Fool,” Not Paul. Salas Builds Wall ! Across Railroad in A Battle for Land Naval Stores Man Also Defies City. • Fear of Mine Leaves Him Victorious. NEITHER IS SHETHE HEROINE Scottish Adonis, All Innocence, Seen in Fireplace Glow. In spired Fervid Romance. ‘Rube’ Marquard Is Sued on $1,000 Note CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—“Rube" Mar quard, pitcher for the New York [ Giants, and Blossom Seeley Majr- I quard, his wife, with whom he - is j playing in a vaudeville sketch in the i Palace Music Hall, are defendants in a $1,000 suit, filed in the Municipal Court by Joseph Kane, Mrs. Mar 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 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 appealing for leniency, Probate Judge Osborn consented to give Robert another chance. ‘Wes'Edwards, Feud Leader, Seriously Ill RICHMOND. VA., Dec. 6.—Suffer, lng from tuberi losis, 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 i the prison shoe shop. Triplets for Pastor, Ladies’ Aid Is Busy EVANSVILLE, IND., Dec. 6.—The Ladies' Aid Society of the Simpson U. E. Church was hastily called in special session to-day when word was received that the wife of Rev. Henry triplets, two boys and a girl. Simmons had presented him with Preparations had been made for but one child, and a hurry-up order for clothing resulted. Builds Extra Strong Home for Big Family Special Cable to The American. PARIS, Dee. 6.—Elinor Glyn. grace fully reclining on an eighteenth cen tury couch ip the loveliest boudoir of which a woman can conceive, smiled when The American's correspondent showed her the report that John Prese ton Arnot. who recently remarried his former wife, Countess Marietta, of Spain and Pittsburg, claims he is the hero of “Three Weeks.” “He can only be a crank or a fool!” she exclaimed. "Therefore. whv should T proceed against him? I would do so only if he had the im pudence to hint that he is the hero and I the heroine.” The mere possibility of such a sug gestion stirred the author, who, leap ing to her feet and her hand clenched, her eyes blazing, said: “In such a case my small, smooth hands will prove tipped with claws. I will tear the man to pieces." Makes Dramatic Figure. She made a dramatic figure against the background of purple silk. She was dressed in a simple, tight-fitting, low-cut black velvet gown, her mass of Titian hair supplying the oniv touch of color. Her anger quickly evaporated. "1 had intended to keep secret how I came to write ‘Three Weeks’ untf! my death, but I see now to relate it will be the best way to kill this leg* end about its hero. "It was the assassination of Queen Draga of Servia that first gave me the idea. The fact that a beautiful wom an could be slain in cold blood awakened my sense of the dramatic. Later on. at Fhristmas time, after a hard day’s snooting, I was sitting by a monumental fireplace in a historic Scottish castle. Opposite me was a youth of perfect beauty, with the features of Adonis. His blue eyes re flected utter innocence of feminine wiles. I asked myself, ‘What would you be if your soul were suddenly kindled by love?’ “This psychological problem long haunted me. Finally I worked it out in ‘Three Weeks.’ T decided the her oine should be a queen and-a Russian, because there is no doubt the psy chology of the Slav women is the most complex and most interesting. Lake Lucerne on a summer night .ap pealed to me as the most idealistic for the tale of the unsophisticated Eng lishman's lovemaking. I went there and worked rapidly for a fortnight, the chapters flowed from my pen without effort. Then, jaded. I went to Venice to recuperate, and the my a- tic city of historic intrigues suggest ed to me a fine setting for the last stage of Paul's romance." Alabama Cotton Crop Good and Price Right BIRMINGHAM. Dec. 6.—J. B, Be thea. one of the most prominent Ma sons of Birmingham who is not in Grand Lodge official ’ position, just back from the Grand Lodge annual meeting, where he met representative citizens from all parts of the State, says that from the information he received there can be no doubt that farmers in Alabama, and especially those who raised cotton this > ear, have had the most prosperous year in their lives. All farmers appear to have ready money, the crops being good and the prices brought for the product being most satisfactory. Burns 30 Buildings To Hear Fire Bells WINONA, MINN. Dec. 6.—“The thought of the wild flanging of the fire bells, the rising smoke and the reddening heavens was too much for me. I burned over 30 buildings be cause the excitement was irresisti ble," said Frank Norton to the Wi nona police. SAVANNAH. Dec. 6.—R. S. Salas, wealthy naval stores and fertilizer %nan, is becoming famous In Savan nah in a three-cornered row w’ith 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 city. 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 f all across the open ing. The company sent a switch en gine and knocked the w-all down. He has now erected across the opening a sign the size of a large Billboard warning the railroad not to again trespass on his property. Just what plans he has made he W’ould not say. but so sure are the company employees that he nas planted a mine, that no one will take an engine In. Jacksonville Girl Called ‘Coming Nordica' +«4* ❖••I* •!•••> *!•••{• •!•••!• -!-•-!* •i-*4 4 •!•••!- Voice Excelled Farrar’s Before She Studied .Miss Ruby Lehman Leyser, of Jacksonville, whose voice is declared marvelous. Mother Fears Arctic Explorer Is Dead CHICAGO, Dec. University of Chi cago friends of Ernest DeKoven Lef- fingwell, a student ar the Midw’ay In stitution, fear he has lost bis life on his final daRh for the North Pole. A tele gram was received yesterday at the university from Leffingwell’s mother, who is in Pasadena. Cal. She telegraphed she had not heard from her son since August 23, and that he was to have returned from Point Barrow, Alaska, by November 1. In the spring of this year I*effingrwell joined the Steffansson expedition. W had promised his parents that this would be his last Arctic trip. ‘I Shot Him to Save My Life/ Cries Wife NEWCASTLE. WYO., Dec. 6.~“I killed Jim because he intended to kill me. There was nothing el. 1 # for me to do.” said Sarah Scudder, justify ing the shooting of her husband, James Scudder. at a sawmill camp near Upton. * Mrs. Scudder sent a bullet through Scudder’s head. He died nine hours later without regaining consciousness. Mrs. Scudder 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 in Texas. After Prayers, Man, Long Invalid, Walks CENTRA LI A. ILL., Dec. 6.—A ease of “divine lipaling" 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 plated. Minister Arrested On Bigamy Charge CHAMBERSBURG, PA., Dec. 6.— Just as he was 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 to 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 tw’o. SABILLASVTLLE, MD„ Dpi-. *. Neighbors of Theodore Colvin Wills are congratulating him on the completion of a new home built to withstand the tremendous weight of his family. The Wills family, with seventeen ac tive members, weighs mqre than a ion 1 and a h*fc Man Resigns *3,600 Job to Hear Sea Roar SACRAMENTO. Dec 6.—“The sound of the surf at night Is worth $100 a rnontli to me." said Charles L. Snyder, chief examiner and secretary of the Stale Civil Service Commission, in an nouncing liis resignation of a $3,600 Job. Snyder will return to Alameda and resume work as secretary of the Pacific Division of the Federal Civil Service at $2,400 a year. He has been on leave from this position, w-hich is a permanent Undraped Posing Causes Stir in Paris Cabinet Minister's ex-Wife Seen Artistic “Studies” by Lead ers of Art World. PARIS, Dec. 6.—A social sensation l\a» been caused here by the undraped plas tic poses by Madam Valentine DeSaint Point, the divorced wdfe of a French cabinet minister, granddaughter of the Marquis DesGians DeCessrtat, 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 PeMars 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 F’olnt, who is known as Madame Valentine, has a petite fig ure. pale blue eyes and a mass of chest nut hair. She is als# a writer of books and plays, as well as a talented painter. Town Puts Its Ban On All Sunday Work AURORA, ILL., Dec. 6.—No resi dent of this city will be allowed to work on Sunday or keep open his 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 by the City Council. The ordinance was passed to ap pease the barbers, most of whom fa vor Sunday closing. Two-Mile Walk Is Favored for Pupils WOODBURY, N. J.. Dec. 6.—“Two miles is not on excessive distance for a good, healthy child to walk lo school." according to .1. Brognard Betts. Assistant Slate fommisurioner of Education. Italy Buys Warship Built for Brazil Special Cable to The American. LONDON. Dec. 6. The Daily Tele graph pub ishes tiie report that Italy has purchased the Brazilian dreadnought Rio .Janeiro. Genevieve Clark To Be Housekeeper WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark hi ve taken a house on Massachusetts avenue which will prove one of the center* of official society this winter. The household presiding genius to be Miss Genevieve Champ Clark, their attractive debutante daughter, w ho will apply the principles of mod ern domestic science' t the servant and housekeeping problems. One of the first entertainments to be given In the house will be on Ne vi Year’s Day, when MIj* Clark will be presented to society. Wed 20 Years and Divorced 20, Remarry 0 BINGHAMTON, Dec. 6.—The mar riage of Mrs. Laura Perkins, of Ox ford. and Andrew Keyes, of this city, in Oxford, revealed a romance. Forty years ago they were married and lived together twenty years, after which ihr wife obtained a divorce. Ttecent|y they mei accidentally and* decided to remarry. Cousin of Lillie Lehman Plans to European Music Centers. Invade JACKSONVILLE. Dec. 8.—Miss 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 Musical© two years ago. She possesses a wonfbjrful soprano voice and it is her hope to invade Paris. Berlin, London and other muaiqal 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 I/eyser Is gifted with rare charm and wom anly beauty, characteristic of the State in which she was bora—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 gTeat 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 Buzzi 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 Ix>ulsvllle. Young Belmont May Have to Tell Income NEW YORK. Dec. 6.—-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 weeks, to permit the court to pass on the new application. • Real Bird Christmas On J. W. Kern Estate Husband Replies to ‘Perfect Foot’ Wife WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.—Senator and Mrs. John W Kern will give a linique 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 Uu* grounds for a holi day shelter. OMAHA, NEBR., 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 $160 a month “pin” money. Art Works Demanded Of Millionaire Clark LOS ANGELES. Dec. 6.—In a suit on I file to-day the United States District Court is requested to summon Eli P. • ’lark, a millionaire land holder of Los Angeles, upon a date yet to be set. and require him to show cause why he 1 should not deliver twelve paintings to I Frank McKay, trustee for the bankrupt ; art concern of Tomlinson-Humes, Inc., i of Chicago. I The paintings are said to be the wiork of William Hogarth, and comprise the “Industry and Idleness ' series. Though Huerta Continues To Ba 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 Ove* Escaping Fighting — Fe'deraf Army Fleeing Toward the South* Special Cable to The America*. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8.—Driven t<* desperate straits by the repeated vie. tories of the apparently Invincible rebels. Federal forces In the capital are working frantically against th» time when "Poncho” Villa, ruthless rebel leader, will carry out bis threat of conquest and pillage of the ancient city. Villa's word has preceded him in his march southward from Juares: “I will have 20,000 men surrounding Mexico City by Christmas Day,” he promised. "Our forces will grow as we march southward, apd by the time we reach the capital the people 1n the city will be ready to join us." Federal Soldier* 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 girls are fearful of walking on the streets, knowing that many of their friends have been forced to service under the Federal banner. Men have ceased to enlist volun tarily in the Federal army. There fore. the officers are compelled to ob tain Involuntary recruits. The favor ite method is to have parties of able- bodied men arrested by the police, on flimsy charges, end then to Intimi date them into enlistment. An ex traordinary trick was worked a few days ago. A moving picture theater was posted with placards bearing the alluring promise that the show with, in was for men only. Glowing 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 door* 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, who 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 tile Federals 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 »•» men In the rank?, but to high offi cials and authorities, the feeling uf Impending disaster seems fastened. Huerta Alone Is Defiant. To all except Vletorlano 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 Federal*. "I have no intention of yielding.'* he stated yesterday. "Should tlia fighting in Mexico continue for years, I will continue to do mv part it I am ali^e-" Huerta w-as encouraged a little by the proclamation of the United States authorities announcing their policy of continued neutrality concerning Mex ican affair?. It is known that in his heart he feared, just as the other 7 | V r •!