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OVER /00,000 THE SUNDAY AMERICAN'S NET PAID CIRCULATION The National Southern Sunday Newspaper The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 113. ATLANTA, OA.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1913. Copyright. llKNJ. By The Georgian Co. 9 flRNTK PAY NO - V. 1 O. more. ROAN ATTACKED IN FRANK APPEAL D*3 C*0 C*3 c*0 Atlanta IV(omen Rescued in Macon Hotel Fire C-. 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 4 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 1 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. - 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. - mm mm