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Hearst Gives $5,000 to Oglethorpe;
The following telegram was read to the Oglethorpe University Committee to-day:
Mr. John Temple Graves,
Atlanta Georgian.
I am extremely interested in the rebuilding of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. I wish you would
kindly subscribe $5,000 from me toward that fund, and through The Atlanta Georgian or any other of our
Sees South as Leader in Education
publications that could be of service enter heartily into the agitation of this project. For a long time the
South led all America in the fame and excellence of its universities. There is now no reason why it should not
do so again, and there is every reason why Atlanta should be in the front rank of the advancing columns of
education and human progress. Please make sure that our papers do their full share in this great work.
December 10, 1913. W. R. HEARST.
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VOL. XII. NO. 112. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913. ByWl&Vgirbo 2 CENTS. F *,T R *°|
FAIN PICKED FOR NEW POLICE BOAR
D HEAD
WAIT UNTIL YOU'RE 18 TO MARRY. I
ADVISES GIRL,17, SEEKING DIVORCE
She ran away
from home to
wed when she
was 13 years
old. Now she
advises girls to
go to school,
and “when you
plan to get
married,
don’t.”
Mrs. Sophie
Meyers,
17 years old,
and the mother
of a 3-year-old
boy, who is
seeking a
divorce.
Man Restrained From
Annoying Suing Wife
An order restraining J. C. Hender
son from annoying his wife, was is
sued Tuesday by Judge Pendleton^
following the filing of a petition for
divorce by Mrs. Henderson. Hender
son was arrested and later released
under $500 .bond.
Mrs. Henderson was a witness in
the Lee will case. She said this made
Henderson so angry he treated her
cruelly.
You Touch
a Magic
Button
When you become a Geor
gian “Want Ad” user.
Like thousands of others,
Mr. Mecklin is amazed.
W A NTED—fo" get in cor
respondence with a man who
is honest and capable of look
ing after a six-horse farm, a
water mill. grinding corn,
lathes, cow feed, etc., who is a
Christian and a manager of
labor, who knows the value of
hogs, how' to look after cows,
garden vegetables, a summer
boarding house and who has
money enough to guarantee
that he Is no fakir. Address
A, H. Mecklin, Toccoa. Ga.
Toccoa, Ga., Dec. 4, 1913.
Want Ad Man, Atlanta, Ga.:
Great Scott; The replies I
received from this “Want
Ad!” It’s remarkable how
many people read The Geor
gian. Yours very truly,
A. H. MECKLIN.
Child-Wife, Married Four Years,
Tells in Court of Shattered
«
Love Dream.
"My advice to girls is not to get
aarried until they are at least 18 or
20 years old."
Out of the wisdom of her 17 years
pretty Mrs. Sophie Meyers offered this
sage counsel Wednesday.
Although Mrs. Meyers is still a year
short of the minimum limit that she
lays down and is just a mere slip of
a winsome girl, she is qualified to
speak, for she has not been married
lo, these four years and has she not
at home the cutest specimen of a
three-year-old youngster that ever
made a happy mother?
Yes, she was but a wee maid of 13
when her girlish heart was captured
bv Frederick G. Meyers and she ran
away to marry him. Wednesday—
four years later almost to the week—
she sat in the witness chair in the
court of Judge Ben Hill and patheti
cally told a story of abuse, ill treat
ment and desertion.
Wed in Short Dresses.
Though she is three years a mother
and speaks with the manner of one
with eons of worldly wisdom, the
child-bride on the stand looked as
though she should still be in the
schoolroom and playing and enjoying
all the girlhood amusements of her
young companions.
“I wasn’t out of short dresses then,"
she said. "I didn’t know w r hat 1 was
doing. I was just a foolish, foolish
little girl. I liked Fred mighty well,
and when he suggested getting mar
ried I thought it would be fine to have
a home just like a grown-up woman.
"It wasn’t very long before I found
out my mistake. Fred began drink
ing heavily and soon he began to beat
me and abuse me terribly.
• •t...* u;o»ks after baby came
Fred attacked me and knocked me
over a trunk that was in the room.”
Mrs. John Slemons, mother of Mrs.
Meyers, was standing by listening to
the recital.
“He wouldn't have had the oppor
tunity to treat my little p- 5 r1 like that
again if I had been there,” she inter
jected, angrily.
"After that he left ine," Mrs. Meyers
continued, "and I never have seen him
from that day to this. That was in
1910. I went home to live with mamma
at Nd. 160 Haynes street and I’ve been
there ever since.
“Of course, I am very proud of my
little boy—Frederick, Jr., I call him—
but I would warn girls never to get
married until they know their own
minds and are able to use a little
judgment in selecting a husband.
“No. I am not prejudiced against
married life,” she added, in response
to a question. And she smiled. “I
know that many, many people are
happy. My own father and mother
are. But I repeat my advice to girls
who ought to be in school: ‘When
you plan to get married, don’t.’ ”
Mrs. Meyers’ story in court won her
a "first decree." She was represented
by Attorney J. W. Weaver.
Duke Bets $2,500
On Self at Tennis
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 10.—The Duke of
Marlborough and the Right Hon. Fred
erick Edwin Smith. M. E., are to play a
tennis match shortly on Maxine Elliott’s
hard court at Bushey Park. Each play
er will back himself with $2,500.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—F air Wednesday
and Thursday.
HEARST’S OGLETHORPE GIFT
(5X3
Threatened Life
STIRS WORKERS
J. J. Lee, in Divorce Court. Tells
of Wife Pointing Gun in
His Face.
Sensational testimony marked »he
hearing of the petition for temporary
aliYnohy pending the suit for divorce
brought by Mrs. Cora L. Lee against
J. J. Lee, a railroad man, In Judge
Pendleton’s court Wednesday.
Lee, on the witness stand, declared
that his wife on several occasions
had pointed a revolver at him, and,
placing her finger on the trigger,
said:
"Now. you hound, you are going
to die.”
Again, the man testified, Mrs. Lee
had sprim®' upon him and beat him
severely with her fists. Also that when
he caught her hands and held them
she bit him on the forearm. The wit
ness displayed several deep lacera
tions in his arm to bear out his te3-
i
timony.
“My wife continually nagged me for
money,” said Lee. “I gave her every
cent I made. She gave me 10 cents
every day for car fare, and when I
wanted .j purchase clothes she would
give me the exact amount necessary
a: d no more
Forced to Clean House.
“With the money I gave her, Mrs.
Lee rented and furnished a house at
No. 388 Peachtree street. The furni -
lure cost 91,800.
“Yet she never attempted to clean
it, and forced me to do so every Sun
day.
“Finally, under the constant strain
of her nagging, I broke down and was
forced to quit work. Then she be
came angry and one night came into
my room with a revolver in her hand.
“She polnt?d the weapon at me and
said. ‘Now. you have got to go to
work. I am tired of seeing you
around here.’
“I protested, and she then said,
‘You miserable beast, I might as well
shoot you, then.'
“I told her that I knew that when
the time came for me to die that I
couldn’t do anything to prevent it,
and for her therefore to go on and
shoot.
Hadn't “Nerve” to Shoot.
“She said: ‘Well, I haven’t got the
nerve to shoot you, but there are
more ways than one to kill a cat.’
“At that I arose from my chair
and started to packing my suitcase.
I was going to leave. Then my wife
sprang at me like a mad woman and
sought to tear my eyes out.
“I caught her hands and held them.
Then sho bit me time and again on
my arms, until finally the pain forced
me to throw her off.
“I left my wife because I was
afraid that she would put poison in
my food.”
When Mrs. Lee took the stand she
was almost hysteircal. She wept at
frequent intervals, and was extremely
nervous.
Mrs. Lee denied almost every state
ment her husband had made. She
declared that he had treated her
cruelly.
Awards Alimony.
While the fourth witness, a physi
cian. was testifying that Lee’s con
dition required an operation. Judge
Pendleton stopped the hearing with
r 1 ... d o r.inm. *
Atlanta Couple Put
Under Bond on Girl's
White Slave Story
Samuel A. Stoe, a saloonkeeper at
No. 319 Peters street, and his wife,
Mrs. Annie Stoe, were placed under
bonds of $1,000 each by United States
Commissioner Carter Wednesday
morning, on charges of violating the
white slavery laws In the transporting
of Annie Bond, 18, of Atlanta, to Bir
mingham and points in South Caro
lina. The preliminary hearing has
been set for Saturday at noon.
The girl, In an affidavit before the
United States Commissioner at Ath
ens late Tuesday afternoon, charges
Stoe and his wife induced her to ac
company them to Birmingham, where
they placed her in a resort. Later,
she says, they took her to other Ala
bama towns and to different places In
South Carolina, where they forced her
to turn her earnings over to them,
with the exception of barely enough
to pay her living expenses. She says
she escaped from a place in Athens.
L. J. Baley, special investigator for
the Department of Justice, is han
dling the investigation, and probably
will bring the girl to Atlanta before
the hearing for an interview.—
City Police Fines
Rival New York’s
“The best policeman is the one who
can keep order with the least ar
rests."—Mayor Woodward.
"Atlanta’s Police Court yielded
$80,000 in fines imposed upon prison
ers last year; New York City’s Police
Courts, all in all. yielded only $120,-
000.—Philip Weltner, secretary of the
State Prison Board.
Atlanta policemen came under fire
Tuesday night at the meeting of the
Police Commission when Mayor
Woodward and Philip Weltner set on
foot a campaign to reduce the great
number of arrests which have been
made in this city during the past
year.
Fogler Grabs Lead
Of Six-Day Racers
NEW YORK, Dec lfl.-ln a sharp
brufih with Francisco Verri, the dar
ing Italian rider, Joe Fogler snatched
the lead in the six-day bicycle race
at Madison Square Garden this after
noon and set so fierce a pace that the
record for 81 hours was shattered by
eleven miles and one lap.
The hot pace maintained all day
continued during the sixty-second
hour, and at 2 p. m. the riders had
broken the previous record by four
teen miles and three laps. At that
hour the leading teams had covered
1,266 miles and one lap.
Elihu Root Awarded
Nobel Peace Prize
CHRISTIANIA. NORWAY. Dec. 10
Two Nobel peace prizes for 1912 and
1913 were to-day awarded to United
States Senator Elihu Root, of New
York, and to Senator LaFontain, of
the Belgian Parliament.
As no Nobel peace prize had been
awarded last year, there were two for
disposition this year, each worth
$40,000.
75 Syracuse Co-Eds
Punished for Tango
SYRACUSE, Dec. 10.—Because Syra
cuse University co-eds danced the tango
at the Havenhall Dormitory ball, 75 of
them have been ordered not to attend
any dances at all, and during the next
two weeks to be in their rooms by 10
n'olnnlf buhh » I «rh t
Gifts of Building Material Worth
$17,500 to $25,000 Also
Announced
John Temple Graves, representing
William Randolph Hearst. treated the
Oglethorpe University fund aubcom-
mittee chairmen to a surprise Wed
nesday by appearng unexpectedly at
their noon funcheon in the Piedmont
Hotel and announcing a $5,000 gift
from Mr. Hearst.
The appearance of Mr. Graves, who
was well known to most of those
present, was the signal for an ovation
which developed Into a near-riotous
demonstration when the purpose of
his visit became known.
It was a day of big contributions
The cheering for Mr. Graves had
hardly died down when James R.
Gray announced that building mate
rials aggregn’ing from $17,500 to $25,-
000 In value had been donated by a
corporation hat wished its identity
withheld for the present.
Day’s Total $27,643.
Other contributions brought the
day’s total up to $27,643, the largest
since the noon luncheons were insti
tuted two weeks ago. L. P. Botter.-
field’s committee bore off the paim
for the day, bringing in $1,093 in sub
scription®.
"I have a groat personal Interest In
Atlanta and In the project to locate
Oglethorpe University here." said Mr.
Graves when he was introduced by
Vice Chairman Ivan E. Allen. “It Is
one of the greatest undertakings ever
assayed in the South and one most
worthy of support.
"I arrived in Atlanta only this
morning. When I went to The Geor-
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Hobson Near a Fist
Fight After Calling
Congressman Liar
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—-Only In
terference by bystanders prevented
Representative Hobson of Alabama
and Representative Donovan of Con
necticut coming to blows on the
threshold of the House chamber this
afternoon, after the lie had been
passed.
Hobson upbraided Donovan for ob
jecting to the presentation of the pe
tition for prohibition by the W. C. T.
U., and is reported to have called
Donovan a Mar. Donovan retorted:
“You can’t tell the truth, either in
the House or on the platform."
Friends of the two men interfered.
Bad feeling is said to have existed
between Donovan and Hobson for the
pasrt two months on account of Don
ovan’s attacks on the floor accusing
Hobson of chronic absenteeism from
the House.
Insurance Firms Hold
$75,000,000 Realty
Secretary W. H. I^eahy. of the Indus
trial Bureau of the Chamber of Com
merce, Is compiling statistics showing
the value of the real estate Investments
of the 60 or more life Insurance com
panies doing business in Atlanta
The figures already obtained, without
having covered more than half the
companies, Indicate the total will reach
more than $76,000,000.
Slaton Party Guests
Of Kahns at Opera
NEW YORK. Deo. 10.-Mr and Mrs.
Otto H. Kahn had as their guests at the
American premiere of the Rosen Kava-
ller last night at the Metropolitan
Opera House Governor and Mrs. John
M. Slaton, of Georgia, and Mr. and Mrs
Clark Howell, of Atlanta
Fashion;Hair;HatPin;
And Now Girl Is Deaf
IOLA, KANS., Dec. 10. —Wearing her
hair down over her rarn In the pre
vailing fashion will result In Miss
Maude Rodgers being permanently
deaf. She pierced her ear drum with
a hat pin.
GET YOUR SEATS FOR
THIS GREA TSHOW NOW
Get your tickets now for the Empty Stocking Fund Star j
> Matinee Friday afternoon, 2:30 o’clock, at the Atlanta Theater. '
You can reserve them by calling Ivy 595—and you’d better ;
, do it, because you’re going, and you want a good seat.
Here’s a partial list of the great bill:
Australian Boy Scouts, champion boy woodsmen of the
j world.
Thomas Wallace, tenor, and Bayne Young, baritone, soloists '
' with Ellery’s band, accompanied by Ellery himself.
Yvette, violinist, headliner at the Forsyth.
, Auriema, sensation of the movies.
Francis and House, crack tumbling team from the Atlanta l
' Athletic Club.
All these, and then some more—and then the great climactic ;
| act from “Fine Feathers,” with Robert Edeson, Wilton Laek- )
\ aye, Max Figman, Rose Coghlan, Lolita Robertson and Lydia (
\ Dickson in the star roles.
Also a Doll Auction, of dolls dressed by Atlanta society I
women, with Forrest Adair as auctioneer.
The prices are: Orchestra. $1; entire balcony, 50 cents; j
i entire gallery, 25 cents.
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW !
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W. P. Fain, Second Ward Rp^»
resentative, will be elected 8110^
eessor to Chairman Carlos H. Ma.
son,' of the Police Commission,
unless something happens be
tween now and the time of the
election to disrupt well-laid plans.
The unmistakable signs Wednesday
are that the flght finally will narrow
down to Mr. Fain and W, A. Vemoy.
Commissioner from the Third Ward,
The situation is inevitable in spite of
the fact that attempts to deny It will
be made by those concerned. And If
the vote is taken on only these two
at least eight of the twelve member**
will cast their ballot for Mr. Fain.
The chaotic state of the race for
the chairmanship took definite form
during and following the meeting of
the Police Commission Tuesday night.
There were further developments
Wednesday.
Narrows Down to Two.
From a situation where practically
every member of the Commission was
a candidate to succeed Mr. Mason, the
situation has sifted to a fight between
Mr. Fain and Mr. Vernoy; and every
step points more and more clearly tt»
the election of Mr. Fain.
The position of only one man cast®
any uncertainty over the election of
Mr. Fain, so far as political prognos
tications go. That is the attitude of
Commissioner B. Lee Smith, also a
candidate for chairman. Mr. Smith
is a warm personal friend of Mr.
Fain, whose friends declare that sine*
the adjustments of the last few day*
there is no doubt that Mr. Smith will
throw his support to Mr. Fain.
A. R. King also is a candidate for
the chairmanship, but he is said to
be ready to withdraw in favor of
Mr. Fain.
The support of Mayor Woodward,
and his new appointees to the com
mission is counted on through th»
pressure of expediency. The Mayor
will not vote for Mr. Vernoy and h®
is personally very friendly with Mr*
Fain.
Dozier Urged to Return.
There is a report that Mayor Wood
ward is urging Graham P. Dozier, who
resigned as Tenth Ward Commissioner
at the last meeting of Council, to re**
turn to the Commission and stand for
the chairmanship. Should Mr. Dozier
decide upon such a course, Mr. Fain *
plans would be badly upset, but G.
P. Dixon already has been agreed upoiz
as Mr. Dozier's successor and It »Mm<
that Mr. Dozier is out for good.
From present indications the line
up on the election of chairman will
be as follows:
For Fain—Robert C. Clark, A. R.
King, Dr. J. H. Baskin, slated to be
elected to succeed Carlos Mason as
First Ward representative; Marcellus
Anderson, slated to be the new
Seventh Ward representative; B. Lee
Smith. G. P Dixon, slated to succeed.
Mr. Dozier from the Tenth; Mayor
Woodward and his appointee.
For Mr. Vemoy—George Johnfon
and G. R. Gamer.
Not oounted—*>in and Vernoy,
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