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VOL. XII. NO. 113.
ATLANTA, OA.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1913.
Copyright. llKNJ.
By The Georgian Co.
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ROAN ATTACKED IN FRANK APPEAL
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Atlanta IV(omen Rescued in Macon Hotel Fire
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Smashes JPhone Pole Averting Auto Crash
Wilson, Threatened
With Grip, Cancels
All Engagements
Richmond Man, Believed to Have
Perished in Room. Appears,
‘‘Reformed.”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Threat
ened again with an attack of grip.
President Wilson canceled his en
gagements to-day and suspended all
executive business. He is suffering
from a bad cold in the head and from
a mild attack of ’aryngitis
Dr. Grayson is determined not to
take any chances with his patienL
and probably will .sist upon his
throwing aside all work and out-jf-
door exercise until the grip is en
tirely eliminated from his system.
MACON. Dec. It’.'—- J. R Thurmond,
• >r Richmond. Va.. who was believed
to have perished in the Hotel Wil-
ams fire, which caused a loss of
*’ 10,000, made his appearance at noon
d-day. and indignantly denied the re-
orts of his death.
"This affair has converted me." he
'’lid, “for I’ll never take another
drink.”
The porter put Thufmond to bed
v an intoxicated condition, and it
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AAs believed that tlie man failed to
-■scape from his room. However; he
imped to the roof of a two-story
uEding and reached the ground
v ithout mishap He then went to
bed at another hotel, awakening at
noon to learn that he was given up as
ead.
Only the walls of the hotel, a foui-
ory building, are standing, and they
are expected to fall any minute.
Atlantans’ Narrow Escape.
* Sixty-seven guests were in th* ho-
el, ond for a time it was impossible
to tell how many of them had es-
aped. The register and other rec-
rds of the hotel were burned.
A jewelry salesman named Levy,
>om Chicago, claims that his stock
r diamonds, appraised at $10,000. was
• ■St in the fire.
.Mrs. R. Miller and Miss Alice Mill
er, of Atlanta, came down a fire es-
ape from the third floor in their night
lothing just as the ceiling of their
The President will remain within
his room to-day and probably until
Monday.
A delegation of temperance work
ers was much disappointed at not
being able to see the President.
Vaccine Perpetuates
Smallpox, Is Charge
WASHINGTON. De< 11.—Wit n
practically every civilized nation urg
ing its invitation upon the Interna
tional Anti-Vivisection and Animal
Protection Congress, now in session
here, Belgium to-day appeared to be
the delegates' choice for the next
gathering three years hence
Porter F. Pope, of Philadelphia, de
clared tUnt the ‘v<vuinue<j prevalence
of smallpox in America is solely due
PROSPERITY
Lee Will Case Goes
To Jury After Trial
Lasting 3 Weeks
.MUSH
All Records for Volume of Busi
ness Here Broken by Early
Christmas Mail.
to the continued practice of vaccina
tion.’’
Man Kills Negro Who
Shot Brother-in-Law
DARIEN 1 . Dec. it.— When J. P.
Mew, a farmer, went over to Gen
eral Island, opposite Darien, to look
after some hogs, he saw a negro with
one. As Mew hailed him
opened fire, shooting Mew
Mew’s brother-in-law. who was
with him. fired on the negro, killing
negro
in the face.
him.
mom fell in. All of their clothes and
possessions were destroyed. Brady
Knight, of Eatonton. found the stair
way and fire escapes cut off by sheets
< f flames, and so he tied quilts and
sieets together and reached the
ground with the use of this Impro
vised rope
Honeymooners Hit.
A honeymoon c uple. Mr. and Mrs.
>. M. Lorig. of Macon, the bride for
merly being Miss Martha Cohn, of M-
any, had an exceedingly narrow' es-
ape, and were rescued by firemen,
eing taken out of a window, almost
suffocated. They lost diamonds and
her jewelry, mostly wedding pres-
• nts, valued at $4,000.
The ii.e was discovered by a po-
ceman at 4:43 a. m., and at that time
he roof was blazing. Defective wir-
ng was supposed to have started the
fire.
To Save Xmas Poultry
From Warm Weather
0 WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.— Declaring
the loss of poultry during the Thanks
giving period because of the warm
weather wi* 'almost a calamity of na
tional import.” agricultural specialists
have issued warnings to poultry deal
ers. and those engaged in dressing, on
how' to chill and preserve poultry so
as to prevent loss during the Christ
mas season.
Hose Is No Place
For Xmas Money
CHICAGO. Dec. 11.—The following ad
vice to women Christmas shoppers was
given to-day by Chief of Police Glea
son:
“Take your husband shopping with
you. Let him carry the money.
“An inside skirt pocket is an excel
lent place to carry money while in a
crowd," the chief said, “but don't put
it in your stocking.’’
Let the Record
of Results Be
Your Guide
Every mall brings evidence of
quick and satisfactory results re
ceived through Hearst’s Daily
Georgian and Sunday American
"Want Ads.”
THIS “WANT AD"
FOR SALE—Turkeys, at 17c
per pound. Write A. C. Mc
Leod, Jr.. Quitman. Ga.
appeared in three issues of
Hearst’s Daily Georgian
HUNDREDS OF LETTERS
similar to the following are on
file in our office:
Quitman Ga
The Georgian Company.
Dear Sirs: Inclosed find check
in payment for th** ad-you put in
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our paper. I must say that I a m
well pleased with the results
Yours truly.
A C. M’LEOD. 1R
Hill Finds Ink Blot;
Bank Officers Quit
ST PAUL, Dec. 11.—One little inl<
gpot is reported to have caused a shake-
up in J. J. Hill’s First National Bank
that to-day resulted in the resignation
of W. A. Miller, vice president, and F.
A. Nienhauser. cashier.
As the story goes. L. W. Hill recent
ly received a statement of his account
with a drop of ink upon the figures.
Then the shake-up.
The wave of prosperity reported in
all lines of business in Georgia and
Atlanta has found an echo in the
business of the Atlanta postoffice.
Postmaster Bolling H. Jones said
Thursday that the volume of mail
that passed through the local post-
otfice Wednesday night, was gieater
by many thousand pieces than that of
any previous 24 hours in the history
of the office.
“We broke every record that was
ever heard of around here.*’ said Mr.
Jones. “We handled 240.000 pieces of
first class mall and fully 300.000
pieces of second, third and fourth
class mail. There were 25.000 parcels
alone, which is about the number
that has passed through the office
ev#fy day for the past two weeks,
and there were thousands of other
pieces of mail that I have ndt in
cluded in these figures.
Flood of Calendars.
“One firm alone mailed 15,000 cal
endars Wednesday afternoon, and in
asmuch as they are about tw r o feet
long and difficult to handle, they are
equal to fully three times that amount
of ordinary mail matter.
“The increase in the volume of
business that passes through the At
lanta office has been apparent for sev
eral weeks, but we bad no idea it
would reach the tremendous propor
tions of last night. We require be
tween 1,000 and 1.500 mail sacks—all
of them large ones—to handle the
Atlanta mail now. and this number
probably will be doubled when the
Christmas rush comes.
Mr. Jones declared that in view' of
the great increase in the business of
the postoffice those w r ho contemplate
sendfhg awa, Christmas gifts should
mail their packages as soon as possi
ble
Shudders at Prospect.
“If the volume of mail reaches the
stupendous total of 600.000 pieces
three weeks before Christmas." he
said, “think what n will reach when
the Christmas rush begins in tamest.
Unless parcels are mailed at once
there can be no certainty in their de
livery, because there is a limit to
what our force can do. We have
working now’ all the ex ra men we
have room for. and though they are
handling the present volume of mail
in fine shape. If it gets much larger it
is going to be very hard to handle.
“People seem to be spending more
money than ever before for Christ
mas gifts.”
Mr. Jones also said Thursday he
had about 1.000 “Santa Claus letters”
which children have placed in the
mail, and which he has authority ot
turn over to any charitable institu
tion or responsible person who wishes
them. These letters exceed by sev
eral hundred the number that were
mailed last year, and unless someone
asks for them they will be sent to
the dead letter office to make room
for those yet to come.
The Lee will case went to the jury
at 11 o’clock Thursday morning, aft
er a two hours’ charge by Judge Bell,
and a verdict is* expected to-day. The
trial lasted three weeks.
The contestants in the suit are the
daughters of Mrs. Lee. The suit is
styled “Mrs. Annie LaRue Lee Mi-
zell. eaveatrix. against Mrs. Maud Lee
Thompson.” Mrs. Mizell claims her
sisters were awarded their share of
her mother’s estate prior to her
mother’s death, and that the entire
estate left by her mother was willed
to her.
Two wills were introduced, on,e of
which awarded the estate to Mrs. Mi
zell and the other dividing it among
all the children. Charges of forgery
have beer made in connection with
the signing of the last one. A $40,-
000 estate Is involved.
U, S, System Blamed
For Postal Thefts
SAVANNAH, Dec. 11.—In sentenc
ing Lee Baisden, a negro postmaster
of Pembroke, Judge William B Shep
pard, in the United States District
Court to-day. said that the Govern
ment was responsible for the preva
lence of larceny among fourth class
postmasters on account of the sys
tem by which it pays them on a per
centage basis for the number of
stamps sold.
What Does Senate Do
With Fruit Knives?
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. -“Why did
the Senate buy grapefruit knives?”
This is a mystery precipitated by pub
lication of expense items of the United
States Senate in a report from the sec
retary.
However. the need of grapefruit
knives is not more mysterious than
other items, such as timothy hay, oats,
meal. bran. arniGa. mustang liniment,
floss pillows, mineral waters and taxi
cabs.
Woman of 116 Made
Shroud 55 Years Ago
XEW YORK, Dec. 11—Although
cheerfulness is the recipe by which
Mrs. Hannah Kosokoff says she has at
tained the age of 116 years, she has a
burial shroud beneath her bed.
She made it herself Go years ago when
she thought her time to die had come.
LILLIAN DEMANDS APOLOGY.
LITTLE ROOK. Dec. 11.—Lillian
Russell forced the management of tin
Hotel Marion to apologise publicly
for having advertised that she wouio
danre with a goes! at a cabaret show-
in the hotel.
Rich South African
Is Shot by Assassin
Mrs. Young May Head
Milwaukee Schools
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 11.—Mrs. Ella
Flagg Young, who withdrew yester
day as superintendent of the Chicago
public schools, may head the public
schools of Milwaukee.
Sentiment for her engagement as a
successor to Carroll G. Pearse de
veloped among the school directors
this morning.
6-Day Bike Racers
Keep Ahead Record
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—At 2 p. m.. the
eighty-sixth hour, the leading t^ams in
the six-day bicycle race were 18% miles
ahead of the former mark, made in 1909,
and had covered 1,700 miles.
BUI SAVES
Attorney Watt Kelly Is Injured
Three Companions Escape as
He Wrecks Car.
Watt Kelly, an attorney with of
fices in the Temple Court Building,
was injured, and three other Atlanta
business men, his companions, had
narrow escapes Thursday when An
automobile In which they were riding
cra-shed into a telephone pole at North
Boulevard and Auburn avenue. 4
The pole was severed at the base
end fell over into the street, barely
missing the occupants of the machine
Mr. Kelly was thrown against the
side of the automobile and suffered
se' ere hurts to his chest and knee
cap With him were Herbert Ferrell,
manager of the United Building Com
pany: Edward O’Beirne. a partner
with William H. Rhett in an insur
ance company, with offices in the
Hurt Building, and Rhett, who was
driving the machine.
The accident occurred when Rhett,
in order to avoid a collision with an
other automobile, swerved his ma
chine to one side. Witnesses declared
that the second machine was driving
on the left side of the street, running
alongside of an Auburn avenue street
car. Rhett, rounding a curve in Au
burn avenue, was confronted with the
other car. which was bearing down
upon him.
With a quick turn of his wheel, he
sent his car into the pole The other
automobile drove on past, paying no
attention to the other, and proceeded
down f^he street. The identity of its
occupants was not learned.
Mr. Kelly was hurried to his office,
where medical attention was given
him. He then was removed to his
heme
The party had been out on High
land avenue inspecting some building
operations
Jealous Suitor Held
As Dancer’s Slayer
NEW YORK. Dec. 11. Benjamin
Clare, a professional tango dancer,
was shot and killed earl 5 to-day
w’hile standing with Miss Marie Mc
Gee in front of her home in Long
Island City.
On information furnished by Miss
McGee the police arrested James
Cassidy and Patrick McCurdy, a jeal
ous suitor. It was charged Cassidy
shot Clare through the heart w'hile
McCurdy held the victim’s arms.
SEE NOTED STARS;
HELP XMAS FUND
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRI
CA, Dec. 11.—Sir Lionel Phillips.
South African mining magnate and
multi-millionaire. was shot three
t^mes. but probably not fatally wound
ed by an assassin while in Commis
sioner street to-day. The assailant
was arrested. He said he acted in
revenge.
Sir Lionel was one of the group of
five men, including John Hays Ham
mond. of New York, who were sen
tenced to death for instigating the
Jamiesot raid in 1896. tvhk-h brought
on the Boer War. He was formerly
with * *eci: Rhodes.
Everything is in readiness for the biggest show in Atlanta s
; theatrical history—the All-Star Matinee for the benefit of the
Empty Stocking Fund at the Atlanta Theater, Friday, Decem
ber 12, at 2:30 p. in.
Robert Edeson, Wilton Lackaye, Max Figmau, Rose Cogli-
' lan, Lolita Robertson, Lydia Dickson, of ‘'Fine Feathers:”
Yvette, of the Forsyth; the Australian Boy Scouts, Auriema,
House and Francis, crack Athletic Club experts, the famous
J Ellery Band—they will all appear in a LiII that money couldn’t
; buy.
And there will be a great doll auction, with Forrest Adair
j as auctioneer, and John Temple Graves, eloquent. Georgian,
. helping things along.
It is an array of talent representing thousands of dollars to
any booking office, all inspired by the desire to help the poor
youngsters of Atlanta have one merry Christmas.
Get your tickets at the Atlanta Theater right now. Orehes
tra, $1 entire balcony. 50 cents; gallery. 25 cents
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
RETURNS TO ATLANTA
COLONEL JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
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Trial Judge Termed ‘‘Vacillating”
by Defense Attorneys—Hear
ing Likely to Start Monday.
Will Be Permanently Associated
With The Atlanta Georgian and
Hearst’s Sunday American.
Elevator Common
Carrier, Is Ruling
Of Supreme Court
Uolonei John Temple Graves, for
the past Fix years editor of The New
York American and special writer *QT
the various Hearst publication*, has
returned to Atlanta to be permanent
ly associated with Mr Hearst’s At
lanta newspapers as that publisher’s
direct personal representative.
Uolonei Graves’ work in Atlanta and
the South will be wide in scope and
far-reaching: in consequence. He will
stand for Mr. Hearst and his asplra*
tlons and ambition in Southern Jour
nalism. He will project his personal
ity sharply Into the Hearst publica
tions in the South, and his work will
be Mr. Hearst’s work.
Needles to say, Colonel Graves Is
being cordially welcomed on all sides.
He numbers his friends in Dixie by
the thousands. He is attached to the
South by ties of blood and long as
sociation and acquaintance. The en
tire period of his young manhood was
spent In Dixie, as an editor in Georgia
and Florida, and, although he has had
high honors conferred upon him
abroad, his heart still is, and ever
has been, most at home among Geor
gians.
Colonel Graves has been Intimately
associated with Mr. Hearst in New
York and Washington, and has been
sent to Georgia because Mr. Hen ret
Relieves him pre-eminently the man
to bring the Hearst publications close
to the hearts and firesides of the
Southern people.
Of course, Colonel Graves Is glad to
be “bauk home.” As he expresses it,
“Old Brer Rabbit was no more de
lighted when thrown Into the briar-
patch than 1 am delighted to be in the
South again permanently, and where
I may serve the people of my native
section to the full and final limit of
my ability.
“Mr. Hearst has great ambitions
for The Georgian and The Sunday
American. I shall strive to help him
realize them completely."
Mrs*,Graves and the children will
not return to Georgia until later in
the winter, and perhaps not until
The Georgia Supreme Court to-day
held in the case of Lucy L. Allen
against Mrs *W. I). Grant, owner o*
the Grant Building in Atlanta, that the
owner of a public building in which a
public elevator is operated is a common
carrier under the law. In so far as such
owner’s ob'igatlon to exercise extraor
dinary diligence In handling passenger a
is concerned.
Miss Alien brought suit for $25,000
damages against Mrs. Grant, setting
forth that she was seriously hurt and
permanently disabled by a falling ele
vator In which she was a passenger, and
that the accident was due to negligence
of the defendant. Mrs Grant demurred
on the ground the owner of the building
was not a common carrier, and hence
not subject to damages.
$985,000 of Pabst
Estate to Germany
Severe criticism is made of
Judge L. S. Roan for certain
phases of his conduct of the trial
of Leo M. Frank and for his re
fusal to grant a new trial, even
though he himself had doubt as
to the defendant's guilt, in the
brief and argument prepared by
Frank’s lawyers to be presented
to the Supreme Court of Georgia
next Monday.
The document was received from
the printers Thursday The brief of
evidence, another bulky document,
will be completed Thursday afternoon
The attorneys for the defense will
-xrhange brii fs with Solicitor Hush
M. Dorsey later in the day and ail or
the lawvere concerned in the famous
case will be ready to re-engage in s
bitter legal battle which had its be
go ring on July 26, when Frank's trial
was started.
Judge Roan Criticised.
Judge Roan Is characterised in the
printed arguments of the attorneys as
“vacillating" in his conduct of the
trial at many times, and his action in
refusing a new trial is described as
indefensible, in view' of his openly
expressed doubt of Frank's guilt.
The argument on this particular
phase of the appeal to the Supreme
Court concludes with numerous lega i
citations designed to show that Judge
Roan was shirking a plain duty when
he refused to take the burden of a
decision in the matter Several of
the citations quote the Supreme Conn
as saying that when the trial judge is
assailed with doubts as to the justice
of the verdict there is no course open
lo him but to grant a new' trial.
The documents which are to be
submitted to the Supreme Court, arc
so id by lawyers to be the mosf vol
uminous ever hied in Georgia in an
a Plea led rase.
6C0 Pages in Brief.
The brief of evidence alone consists
o,' about 600 large pages with type of •
ordinary size.
The arguments and narration of
the facts of the case consume an
other :U9 pages, and the original mo
tion for a new trial, the amended mo
t.on and the judge’s charge make up
another book of 159 pages. The tola!
is approximately 1,100 printed pages
The case of Frank vs the State i.»
listed eighteenth on the calendar of
the Supreme Court and will be reach-
»d Monday, in all probability, the
.others being mostly cases from othef
parts of the State, which will not be
argued except through the briefs sub
mitted.
MILWAUKEE. WIS.. Dec 11. More
than $985,000 in United States money wil;
leave America within a few days for
tile land of the Katser.
According to the Pabst will, the estate
was left ler trust for Mrs Emma Sohen-
lein. Captain Fred Pabst's daughter, to
revert to her when her daughter Edith
should attain the age of 10 years. Tne
child reached her tenth birthday Octo
ber 13
Mercer Junior Head
Acquitted by Class
MACON. Dec; 11. The president of
the junior law class at Mercer Uni
versity underwent an impeachment trial
last night and was acquitted.
The president .was charged with high
crimes and misdemeanors in that he had
"bootlicked” and that he had "insulted”
the class and demeaned himself in a
manner unbecoming his official position.
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Generally fair
Thursday and Friday.
Sues Wife, Who Made
Odd Bed Regulations
Charging that his wife made life mis
arable for him by many strange acts
of cruelty, one of them being the re
quirement that he lie at a certain angle
in bed while sleeping, Ludwell J. Sacrey
has brought suit for divorce from Mrs
Anna Bacrev.
lie further charges that she would noi
let him read as much as he wanted to;
that she kept the house in a disordered
condition; that she kept pictures of
strange men in the house. To prevent
him from taking the child for a walk
on Sunda\ s, he charges that she would
smear the child with dirt so that i<
would not be presentable.
250 Reported Dead;
Tornado Hits Canoes
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
WEST AFRICA Dec. 11.—-More than
2R0 natives are believed to have per
ished to-day when a tornado blew
twenty passenger-carrying canoes w
to sea Many upturned canoes were
later found.
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