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The Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. xn. NQ. 110.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1933.
Copyright, 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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FINALI
HUERTA’S FAMILY FLEES MEXICO
LATEST NEWS
[DeLa Barra Reported on Personal
Mission for General—Rebels
26 Miles From Capital.
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 8.—Consti-
tutionalist troops led by General
Jose De La Lux Blanco to-day
I invested Tampico and demanded
its surrender. General .labago,
the Federal commander, has only
a small force. A fight at Tam
pico would probably result in the
landing of American marines.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8.—Gen
ital Huerta’s family have fled
from the capital. They are on
Itheir way to Manzanillo, a port
on the Pacific Coast. They left
last night on a special, but their
departure did not become known
jimtil noon to-day. All traveled
fi a single car and the blinds at
the windows were drawn down
[tightly.
Though Huerta has declared he
1*111 fight the revolutionists “to tke
kn<L” it is believed that he will soon
[follow his family. From Manzanillo
|it will be possible to sail for some
foreign land, probably Japan
The party consisted of Senora
[Huerta, two daughters and two sons.
Huerta Still at Palace.
General Huerta was still in the
[palace this afternoon. It is said
[that his wife pleaded with him to
with her but that h», refused. The
|*raJn on which Senora Huerta de
parted went via Guadalajara, which
ranged the report in the early morn-
rag that Huerta had himself gone to
|that city.
Francis De La Barra, who was ap-
| Pointed envoy to France, soon after
IKuerta took office, was recently ssnt
l oa a mysterious mission to Japan.
p 1 1* believed now that he was order-
I there to make arrangements f >r
r* 16 reception of the Huerta family
hen driven into exile.
A military train was blown up by
I rebels north of Iguala, State of
Guerrero, to-day. All the train crew
| W€re killed and it is believed that a
l ar ? p number of soldiers also met
| death.
Fighting Near Capital.
General Castro’s Federal trooi*
|® re Staged in a battle with a largo
laree f Zapatistas 26 miles from
| uere - between Contreras and Adjusco.
lighting ls going on near Tree
IMarias.
I Zapata's soldiers began a general
I advance on the capital at dawn, and
I made good progress when they
I met by Fed era Is dispatched
I m here and from Cuernavaca. As
I repels advanced they destroyed
P® railroad,
[ Enforcements joined Zapata's
to-day, coming from Puebla and
I Guerrero.
I * J ^° Vern nient refused to give
■ information as to the suc-
8 or failure of its troops. This
'aused reports that the Federala
| ^ ' ng driven back.
. ‘ “■ r " is a growing fear in the city
I kill\ T 1 fe . vv h °nrs will see looting and
1- • streets Every avail-
lie ' '^ral soldier was dispatched
I ’ to-day by M Iniater of
I» uet to swell the forces of
astro, who is opposing
**• advancA.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Dec. 8.—General
MacLovia Herrera and 800 rebels were
annihilated by the Federals during a
battle about 20 miles east of Gallego,
according to a report received here
this afternoon. The wires went down
after the report was received. Al
though rebel headquarters deny the
report, there is much activity in the
hospitals in Juarez and hurried prep
arations are being made to receive
the wounded.
DENVER, Dec. 8.—Normal condi
tions will not b© restored in Denver
and Colorado for a week or ten days.
Snow which came with last week’s
blizzard still blocked many Denver
streets, and some parts of the State
were out of communication. No ore
will be hauled from any mine in Col
orado for several days. The coal
shortage In Denver was relieved when
traffic was made possible by the
clearing of the principal streets of the
city.
BAYONNE, N. J., Dec. 8.—Anxious
depositors besieged the First National
Bank to-day while a placard posted
on the door gave notice that it was
in the hands of the Government. The
bank directors had offered to raise
$700,000 to keep it open, but Bank Ex
aminer C. H. Chapman rejected the
plan. From the attitude of the de
positors it was apparent that a run
would have started if the bank had
been opened.
NORTHAMPTON, ENG., Dec. 8.—
Baron Erskine died to-day. He was
73 years old.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—Joseph J.
Lannin, a hotel owner of Garden City,
N. Y., this afternoon purchased a half
interest in the Boston American
League baseball club. Lannin said
that he had paid “in the neighbor
hood of $260,000“ for the interest for
merly controlled by President J*™e*
A. McAleer and Secretary Robert Me-
Roy. Both these men will retire and
Lannin will be elected president in a
few days.
CHICAGO, Dec. 8.—Managers of 8
oold storage warehouses were subpe-
naed to-day to testify before the Fed
eral Grand Jury in its investigation
intu the high cost of eggs. Attempts
will be made to learn who is respon
sible for the high prices and whether
prices are high because large quanti
ties of eggs are kept off the market
through an agreement between deal
ers.
SHELBYVILLE, IND., Dec. 8.—
State rested its case in the Craig
murder trial this afternoon at 1:45.
The defense stated it wished to make
a motion. The jury was taken from
the court room. Attorne - S pa an at
once moved on behalf of the defend
ant that the jury be instructed to
return a verdict of acquittal, and be
gan a lengthy argument in support
of his motion. Argument on the mo
tion is expected to take up the en-
tiro afternoon.
GIBBSTOWN, N. J., Dec. 8.—Six
men were killed and several were in
jured by the explosion of 700 pounds
of gunpowder in the gelatine mixing
house at the Dupont Powder Works
here this afternoon.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 8.—Two
were killed and five injured on the
Southern Pacific to-day at Schriever,
30 miles from New Orleans, when a
freight train broke in three pieces.
The dead are Andrew Collins and
Fred Lanford, of the train crew. The
airbrake was applied too suddenly.
COLIMA, MEXICO, Dec. 8.—The
town of Coquimatlan was looted by
rebels to-day, but they were defeated
while marching on this city. Thirty
were killed and fifteen captured.
ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 8.—Miss Nora
McCall, niece of Jud^- Edward E
McCall, defeated Tammany candidate
in the New York Mayoralty race, to
day gave up worldly pleasure and
donned the white veil and black habit
of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart.
SHANDON, SCOTLAND, Dec. 8.—
The militant suffragettes who are
avenging the re-arrest of Mrs. Em
meline Pankhurst with the torch,
switched their attacks to religious
operty to-day. Ardgare House,
owned by the United Free Church o*
Scotland was partially destroyed by
fire set b the women.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—Construc
tion of a concrete road 16 feet in
width across the country at an ex
pense of aoout $10,000 a mile, in lino
with the project known as the Lin
coln highway plan, northern route,
was urged by James A. Bell, of Elk
hart, Ind., before the house commit
tee on roads to-.ay. ^he proposal
advanced by him was that the Gov
ernment should pay 50 per cent, the
States 25 per cent, Counties 15 per
cent and townships 10 per cent.
NEW YORK, Deo. 8—While Solo
mon Goldman, a jeweler, was at the
bank to-day havi a check certi
fied, a man with a pail of whitening
mixture and a rag, covered the dis
play window and the door of the
store. Meanwhile a confederate, who
could not be seen from the street
because of the mixture on the glass,
rifled the store of $5,000 worth of
jewelry, thero being no clerk pres
ent. —
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—The six-day
riders hit up the pace in the seven
teenth hour, and at 5 p. m. were one
mile thead of the older record. Score
at the end of the seventeenth hour:
Moran-Grenda, 384.5; Verri-Brocco,
384.5; Breton- Perchicot, 384.5; Clark-
Heijir, 384.5; Root-McNamara, 384.5;
Lawrence-Mag in, 384.5; Halstead-
Drobach, 384.5; rogler-Goullet, 384.5;
Hill- Ryan, 384.6; Hansen-Anderson,
384.5; Carmen-Cameron, 384.5; Wal-
thour-Collina, 384.5; Corry - Bedell,
384.5; Walker- Pye, 384.5; Mitten-
Thomas, 384.5; Appiehaus-Pecken-
hausch, 384.5; Kopsky-Keefe, 384.5.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Denounc
ing the cold storage trust as a con
tributor to the high cost of living and
demanding prosecution and punish
ment of those who control the prices
of foodstuffs, Representative McKet-
lar, of Tennessee, in the house to-day
spoke in support of his bill to regu
late the cold storage of meats and
eggs. He argued that cold storage
not only has any influence on the na
tion’s pocketbook, but on its health.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.~“The
pending currency bill is the b e5 t
measure that present conditions will
permit us to obtain now,” declared
Senator Swanson, of Virginia, in the
Senate to-day. “Its worst opponents
have been forced to confess that its
benefits far exceed its defects,” he
said. Senator Swanson’s statement
that New York banks were direr
responsible for the panic of 1907 was
denied by Senator O'Gorman.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Disclaim
ing an intention of “intervening” on
the part of the United States in the
coming elections in Santo Domingo,
and adding that State Department
representatives now on the way to the
Dominican Republic are sent merely
to observe balloting. Secretary of
State Bryan to-day cabled Minister
Sherman, at San Domingo City, to in
form President Bordas that the Unit
ed States intends to keep its hands
off.
NEW YORK, Deo. 8.-—The return
of Mayor-elect John Purroy Mitchel
from a vacation trip to Panama caus
ed a stir in political circles to-day.
as Mr. Mitchel will make appoint
ments to offices in aggregate salaries
of about $1,0vw,000. He said, how
ever, that no appointments would be
announced before January 1.
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO. Dec. 8.
Ayutla and Tenamastlan, two towns
of the State of Jalisco, have revolted
and driven ou ail the Government of
ficials. Federal troops sent to the
two towns to-day were driven back in
a fight that resulted in 66 deaths.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—President
Wilson got lost in the big Capitol this
afternoon and became completely
turned around when hunting his room
at the Senate wing. The President
went over to the House side expect
ing to find his room there. He was
put on the right trail by the messen
ger at the door of Speaker Clark's
office.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Vice Pres
ident Marshall to-day ruled that the
Alaska railroad bill will be before the
Senate each day as a special order,
but that it shall not interfere with
unfinished business. This means that
the measure will not hold up cur
rency legislation, but will be the busi
ness before the Senate as soon as the
currency bill is passed.
TOKIO, Dec. 8.—Six men were to
day sentenced to death and 131 were
sentenced to penal terms aggregating
838 years for complicity in the plot
to burn the sugar plantations on the
island of Formosa.
TOKIO, Dec. 8.—The new naval
program of the Japanese Government
announced to-day by the minister of
marine calls for the construction of
three more powerful battle cruisers.
Work has already been commenced
on one of them.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Dec. 8.—
The decision of Justice Keough in
dismissing the complaint made by
Mrs. Esther Primrose, of Mount Ver
non, N. Y., against her husband,
George H. Primrose, the famous min
strel man, was affirmed to-day by
the appellate division. Mrs. Primrose
sued for a separation with alimony,
charging cruelty, inhuman treatment
and that her husband was a heavy
drinker.
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Dec. 8.—
Camille Janatsy, famous automobile
driver, who won the international cup
race in Ireland in October, 1903, and
who took part in the Vanderbilt cup
races in 1905 and 1906, was accident
ally shot and killed to-day while
hunting with a newspaper editor.
College Girls War
On Women's Hats
WELLESLEY, MASS., Dec. 8—A
movement has been started here to
compel the removal of hats worn by
women. The "ostrich farms" and
"flower gardens” were denounced at
a mass meeting of Wellesley College
girl a.
COTTON
Grade This Year Is Much Higher
Than From Any Other Sec
tion of Dixie.
Georgia has collected from a world
which must be clothed $139,373,460
this season.
This is $33,750,000 more than came
into Georgia last fall.
The Government ginners’ report
issued Monday shows that 2,064,792
bales of cotton have been ginned In
Georgia since the cotton crop began
to move. Bales ginned, as a general
proposition, may be regarded as bales
sold. Particularly is this true for the
present season. Few farmers are
holding their crop, for prices have
been thoroughly satisfactory.
Georgia, then, has sold more than
2,000,000 bales of cotton. The price
has ranged from 13 cents upward for
middling, with an unusual premium
for white, fine grades. The Georgia
crop has classed much higher than
usual, better than the crop of Texas
or any of the river States. It is con
servative to say that an average of
13 1-2 cents was paid for the Georgia
crop.
This makes $139,373,460 received for
the crop to date.
Last year only 1,564,428 bales had
been ginned to this date. The in
crease this year is 500,000 bales.
Crawford Letter
Defending Widow
Produced at Trial
A letter written by Joshua B.
Crawford to Mrs. Mary Belle Craw
ford fat that time Mrs. Savage) urg
ing Mrs. Crawford to hasten to At
lanta, was introduced by the attor
neys for Mrs. Crawford Monday
morning. It was filed as a counter to
the charge that Mr. Crawford wrote
her telling her not to come to At
lanta The letter reads:
“Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 22, 1909.
"Mrs. Savage: I received my
trunks. I was so glad to get them.
And you say my house is vacant?
Before coming up to Mr. Barens
and have him to rent it for me Come
up as soon as you can for I need
you. We want to get our house fixed
up, so I can live once again. You
promised to come soon Don’t make
it too long. I will close for this time.
“Hoping to see you soon,
“Your intended,
“J. B. CRAWFORD.”
The attorneys for the 48 heirs ob
jected to the introduction of the let
ter, charging it was not genuine.
Mrs. M. J. Johnson, of Tucker, Ga..
a friend of Mr. Cravvf i testified as
to his marriage and illness. She told
of seeing the trained nurse give him
a cough syrup under the doctor’s In
structions.
Dr. W. A. Jarnigan and Dr. Marion
Hull corroborated the testimony of
Dr. J. W. Hurt and others that the
amount of poison in Cr wtord’s stom
ach was not enough ause death.
Girl, 8, Urges U, S> J ;o
Name Younger Santa
WASHINGTON. De- 3—“Please
appoint a younger San a Claus.”
This plea was made by letter to
Postmaster General Bin. sen by Miss
Lodenla L. Hile, 8 ye s cil, of Al
bion, Ind., who «ays:
“Santa Claus used to call on grand
pa when grandpa was a little boy.
Santa Claus must, be too old now *o
get around to sao ail the chilursn,”
Bombardier Wells
Beaten in Ring by
Georges Carpentier
LONDON, Dec. 8.—Geor—s Carpen
tier, the French cham" , ''n, to-night
defeated Bombardier Wells, the Eng
lish fighter.
Carpentier won in the first round.
No sooner had the bell rang when
Carpentier feinted and shot a sting
ing left to the Englishman’s Jaw.
Wells clinched. Then ‘he men spar
red for a few seconds and Carpentier
again landed on the Englishman’s
jaw, and this time We v went down
and out for the count.
Walter Newman Won
Cross Country Run
In 20 Minutes Flat
Walter Newman, member of the
Boys’ High team, won the annual
Prep Cross Country Run this after
noon In f he remarkable fast time of
20 minutes flat.
Dodge, of Marist College, was sec
ond In 21 minutes, and Gro«s, of High
School, was third.
High School flashed five men first
and thereby won the cup offered to
the team finishing the flrrt five men.
The course was along Spring street
from Baker to Fourteenth and return,
a distance of 3.18 miles.
A good crowd turned out to witness
the race.
No Baseball Players
To Write of Sport
During Next Season
NEW' YORK, Dec. 8.—President
Ban B. Johnson announced this aft
ernoon that the annual Amerlcal
League meeting would be held here
about March 7.
The attitude of the magnates to
ward the pisver-writers will not be
changed, said Johnson. Manager Mc-
Graw and Pitcher Mathewson, of the
Giants, are the only men left among
the ranks of the authors, he Raid, and
both have signified their willingness
to stop their writing as soon as their
present contracts expire.
Chief Tells Toccoa
Of Vice War Here
A clean-up movement of some kind is
not unlikely in Toccoa following an
address on the reform movement in At
lanta by Chief of Police Beavers Sun
day.
The chief said time had proved that
there was no fanaticism in the anti-
tenderloin war here which doomed rec
ognized evil. He said it also demon
strated that the man who called him “a
Miss Nancy” was mistaken.
School Children to
Sell Xmas Stamps
The Red Cross Christmas seals will
be sold this year through Atlanta’s
thousands of school children, the
same as last year, for the benefit of
the open-air school fund.
Last year through the sale of the
Red Cross seals school children raised
over $1,000 for the purpose of estab
lishing am open-air school in Afanti.
Judges He Appointed
Kept Taft From Law
CINCINNATI, Dec. 8.—Ex-Presi
dent Taft told for the first time why
he was prompted to give up Cincin
nati as his home and accept a pro
fessorship at Yale.
He said it was because he wou'd
have been compelled to practice law
before Judges he had appointed.
Boarding House Fire
Is Quickly Subdued
Fire, originating from a defective
flue, did slight damage to Mrs Ida
Forrester’s boarding house, No. 227
Whitehall street, Monday afternoon.
The fire was discovered in the roof
It was extinguished by chemicals.
CITY SHIVERS
AT 8 BELOW
FREEZING
Atlanta Experiences Real Touch of
Winter When the Mercury
Goes to 24 Degrees.
Official figures on wind and
temperature for Sunday night
are a« follows:
Highest wind ve’ocity, 42 miles
an hour at 1 o'clock Monday
morning.
Wind velocity at 9 o’clock Mon
day morning, 28 miles an hour.
Lowest temperature, 24 degrees
above zero, at 7 o’clock Monday
morning.
Temperature at 10 o’clock, 27
degree*.
Forecast—Clear and cold Tues
day.
A large red sun crept slowly up In
a steel blue sky Monday morning.
Old Sol got up at the usual time, but
he didn’t cheer up very much. He
looked shivery, and his rays failed to
hit the earth with much of a wal
lop, for the thermometer at 9:30
o'clock registered four degrees below
freezing.
The late attack of Indian summer
w f as over all at once, and winter had
touched Atlanta with an icy hand.
The temperature in the early morn
ing was five or six degrees under the
freezing mark, and the sharp wind
lent point to the chill and poked it
around through the crevices of over
coats and tugged at hats and caused
exposed ears and noses to blush vig
orously.
Wind 40 Miles sn Hour.
The switch in the weather ar
rangements was presaged Sunday
night when a 40-mile-an-hour win i
began to sweep bare the streets of
Atlanta and whoop Joyously around
the skyscrapers.
Pedestrians’ hats came to grief, and
there was even a smash of plate
glass along Peachtree and Whitehall
streets.
The wind came up as the sun went
down, and whooped about under the
stars, which looked a good deal less
like “forget-me-nots of the angels”
when set in a sky that looked like the
roof of a frozen lake.
And all night long the snugly
housed citizens of Atlanta burrowed
deeper and deeper under the cover
lets, and heard at waking intervals
the dull thunder of the wind, and
regietted, dozily, the approaching
time for getting up.
Winter Fires Started.
In the morning there were furnace
fires to build, which is a peculiarly
unhappy task to be performed in
slippers and pajamas, even with an
unfeeling overcoat to boot.
The blaze eddied and swirled In
open grates, and the stoves roared
again, with a doleful sound of good
heat flying up the chimney.
Then breakfast—and it was a prop
er Juncture for the good old warming
sausage-and-buckwheat type of food,
while the vegetarian* and the antl-
c&ffein warriors must have suffered
a qualm or two at the prospect.
Downtown in the early morning
you could tell It was chilly, even if
you didn’t feel 1L The town looked
chilly.
Make Atlanta “Get a Move On.”
Chunks of Ice that a few days ago
had spread water abroad on the side
walks while waiting to be shaved
up for the soda fountains now stood
in the solemn majesty of conserva
tion, without the faintest suspicion of
a wasteful trickle.
There was no loitering on the street
oorners. Everybody seemed to have
somewhere to go and not very much
time to get there.
It was not a dreary scene. Rather,
It sparkled with a brisk life and ac
tivity, as If Atlantans, far from de
clining to take the proffered hand of
winter, had grasped the chill glove
heartily and were squeezing some
warmth and life Into the old boy who
drops In for a visit when the last
football games are over and Christ-
nym is drawing near.
RACING
RESULTS
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST—Six furlongs: Coreopsis,
111 (Davenport). 15-6, 6, 3, won; Ca
mellia, 106 (Ward), 9-5, 4-5, 2-5, sec
ond; Harcourt, 111 (Hanover), 15, 6,
3, third. Time. 1:15 4-5. Eaton Berk
ley, Pluvlus Troyweight, Cllfftop,
Sungulde. Sherlock Holmes also ran.
SECOND—Six furlongs. Coy, 109
(Goose), 4, 2, 1, won; Dick Dead-
wood, 110 (Martin), 18-5, 7-5, 7-10,
second; Loan Shark, 110 (Frasch),
7-2„ 7-5, 7-10 third. Time 1:15 4-5.
Chemulpo, Kiva, Semiquaver, Syl-
vestrls, Camel, Sir Marion also ran.
THIRD—-Mile: Kalinka, 109 (Rlght-
mier), 7-2, 1, 1-3, won; T. H. Adair,
107 (Martin), 10, 4, 6-5, second; Har
ry Lauder, 107 (Deronde), 4, 1, 2-5,
third. Time, 1:42. Llnbrook, Gros-
venor also ran.
FOURTH—Six furlongs Ella Bry
son, 108 (Rlghtmier), 7, 8-5, out, won;
Sir John Johnson, 128 (Glais), 3-2,
2- 5, out, second; Wilhite, 112 (Calla
han), 7-5, 2-5, out, third. Time
1:14 4-5. Samuel R. Mayer, Sher
wood also ran.
FIFTH—Six and one-half furlongs:
Ford Mai, 101 (J. McTaggart), 13-10,
1-2, out, won; Pike’s Peak, 98 (Ran
dolph), 9-2 8-5, 3-5, second; Berna-
dotte, 109 (Callahan), 8, 5. 1, third.
Time 1:24. Hearthstone, Mad River,
Plain Ann, Capt. Jinks, Lady Orimar
also ran.
SIXTH—Six and one-half furlongs:
Servlence, 104 (J. McTaggart), 6, 3-2.
3- 5, won; Chartier, 114 (Buxton), 6-5,
1-2 1-5, second; Tom Holland. 111
(Davie), 6, 2, 4-5, third. Time 1:23.
Queed, Chilton Queen, Batwa, Mon
key, Earl of Savoy also ran.
City Electrician, Through His At
torney, Makes Denial of Charge
by Electric Concern.
Race Entries on Page 11.
Crooks Are Looting
State Postoffices;
Register,Ga.,Latest
If the "yegg" migration through
Georgia doesn’t stop, R. E. Barry,
postoffice inspector, Is likely to have
the family telephone taken out.
"At 3 o’clock this morning," Mr.
Barry said Monday, “I was hauled out
of bed to learn that the postoffice at
Register, Ga., had been blown all to
bits. The postmaster was too excited
to mention his name and he didn’t
know the exact amount of the rob
bery. I guess It wasn’t any great
loss.”
Mr. Barry suggests to postmasters
In small towns that they keep eyes
open during the southward Journey of
tramps and "yeggs” for the winter.
"Crooks will pick up a little change
as they go along,” he said, "and the
descriptions are always meager. A
couple of 'yeggs’ will hang around a
town a week and after they blow the
postoffice safe and get away, all we
can find out is that one qf them was
a tall, slender man, wearing a slouch
hat, and the other a short, heavy-set
man, which description fits practi
cally all the cases of safe-blowing
burglary or highway robbery I ever
heard of ”
Convict in Federal
Prison Here Falls
Heir to Rich Estate
James E. Porter, who Is serving: a
term in the Federal Penitentiary
here for selling liquor in violation of
the Government laws, has, through
the death of a relative at Batesville,
Ark., where Porter was convicted,
fallen heir to $20,000.
The news df Porter’s good fortune
was received by The Georgian Mon
day morning. At the penitentiary of
ficials said that Porter had not as
yet been notified of the legacy.
The county Judge at Batesville has
ruled that Porter’s wife shall have
the Income from the fortune until the
man is released.
Boy Burglars Rob
AlversonBros. Store
Another depredation by boy bur
glars was discovered Monday morn
ing when clerks opened the store of
Alverson Brothers, at No. 88 South
Forsyth street. The burglars got in
through the transom over the back
door.
They took $3 from the cash reg
ister. ... ^
Before a crowd which filled the
Council chamber, the investiga
tion of R. C. Turner, City Elec
trician, charged by the Cotton
States Electric Company with
persecution and unjust discrimi
nation, was begun by the Board
of Electrical Control and the
Council Committee on Electrio
Lights Monday afternoon.
The formal charge by the electrio
company against Mr. Turner was
read by Attorney Aldine Chambers,
for the company. It was, in effect,
that the City Electrician had for
reasons prompted by prejudice and
malice used his official position to
put the firm out of business. In the
charge was also an open Intimation
that Mr. Turner had exacted graft
money.
DenJ^I of Charges.
Following the rear ,s -V nf the charge
Attorney Carl Hutcheson for Tur
ner. read an emphatic denial of all
the accusatlo-- and the hearing of
testimony began.
J. J. Peters, manager for the Cot
ton States* Company, was the first
witness to take th^ stand. Mr. Pe
ters went into the history of the
Elektron ^ompar- an organization
of electrical contractors of Atlanta,
from which, he stated, he had with
drawn soi.ie time ago for solely busi
ness reasons.
He exhibited report® purporting to
be those of this -—elation for the
month of November. 1912 in which
were shown items of expense which
were marked “Account R. C. T.“ Ons
of these items was $180, with a side-
note “Cash to be har^“d Turner.”
Anothr- • was for $14.80, mark
ed “Luncheon for Turner,” on which
occasion, Peters stated, the associa
tion had prese- *-d the City Electri
cian with a gold watch.
Mr. Peters also declared on the wit
ness stand that on frequent occasions
during his membership in the elec
trical contractors’ organization, Tur
ner’s name had been d 4 ®ed,
“Members Assessed.”
“From time to time this association
presented to Turner amounts aggre-
" Ung, 1 should say. between $70o and
$800. This money was raised through
assessments on the members.”
The investigation adjourned late In
the afternoon until Tuesday
Baptist Pastors in
Men and Religion
Crusade on Liquor
Plana to support the Men and Re
ligion Forward Movement in Its cru
sade against liquor were formulated
at the weekly meeting of the Baptist
Ministers’ Association Monday,
Several pastors declared their In
tention to be present at the next
meeting of the Police Commission,
when near-beer licenses will be con
sidered. They will join in the fight
then to be started.
Pastors also were urged to d.
everything in their power to m&k.
"Gq-to-Church Day” «, succeea, _ 4
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