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VOL. XH. XO. 114.
ATLANTA. <iA.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1913.
Copyright. 1906.
By The Georgian C#.
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DORSEY ATTACKS ROAN’S DECISION
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RED CROSS SEAL
SALE IS PROVING
GREAT SUCCESS
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Georgia Bonds, Says Slaton
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1913 COTTON CROP 13,677,000 BALES
Miss Anne
Akers, at top,
and Miss Helen
Hawkins, two
Seal sellers who
have had ex
cellent results.
1 Congress Probe of
New Haven Officials
Is Urged by Norris
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Declar-
Ing that a deep and searching probe
should be made into the financial
fancy work that has culminated in
the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad passing its dlci-
dend, Senator Norris asserted to-day
that if the Department of Justice
failed to keep its pledges to begin
criminal proceedings he should take
the matter in hand.
“I shall not introduce a resolution
Coast and return in an automobile, j f or a Congressional probe of the
entered Atlanta Friday, finishing one ! New Haven Railroad at this time, be-
of the most extensive tours, which : oause the Department of Justice has
given assurance at various times
I that it will begin criminal prosecu
tion of the officials," said Senator
| ^Norris, “but if the Department of
| Justice does not act I think Congress
j should inquire into the management
of the road."
MARKET UPSTATE LEADS
II PER BILE
T INCREDIT
Government Figures Over 500,- Governor Returns From Financial
000 Short of What Traders
Had Expected.
WASHINGTON, Dec 12.—l^otton
grown this season will equal 13,677,-
000 ba.esl according to the official
estimate of the crop reporting board
jot the Department of Agriculture, is
sued at non to-day. The figures are
exclusive of 1 inters.
The estimated crop is 6.542,850,000
pounds.
It compares with 14,076,430 bales
last season, 15.692,701 in 1911, and
11,608.616 in 1910.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—The cotton
market was taken completely by sur
prise when the official estimate of
the crop wag issued from Washington
at noon to-day.
Hardly any traders had expected
anything less than 14,000,000 bales, 1
and the bears had predicted all the *
way up to 14,500,000.
• The bulls, who have been arguing
all along that the huge, ginning fig
ures to December were not to :.a
taken as meaning a big crop, but
merely aa showing phenomenally ea:.
ly movement, seized upo.i the ammu
nition thus provided them and made
a raid.
Centers Highly Optimistic Over
His Refunding Program.
Leaders Expect to Raise Average
to $500 a Day as Workers'
Ranks Grow,
Nine of Atlanta's most attractive
voung women ill four automobiles left
i he Gould Building at 3 o’clock this
morning with 150,000 Red Cross
'hristmas seals to be distributed
among the public schools of the city.
By Monday practically every school
hild in Atlanta will be offering Red
’ross seals for sale, and the keen
rivalry manifested among them last
/ear undoubtedly means a splendid
harvest for the open-air school fund
to which the proceeds of the sale by
he school children will be devoted.
The party was in charge of Mrs. J.
Wade Conkling. cliairmaij of the
open-air school committee of the At
lanta Anti-Tuberculosis Association,
in addition to the seals, the young
ladles carried 13,000 of the little dou
ble red crosses, insignia of the anti-
tuberculosis work, which will be dls-
Nributed free to the public school chil
dren.
Friday Lucky Day.
With the splendid co-operation < f
the teachers ot the* public schools,
i here Is no doubt the children will se.l
SI,500 worth of the seals and more,
which, added to the S1.000 already in
hand, will be sufficient to maintain ail
rfr.en-air school at least for one year.
The general street sales to-day are
in charge of Mrs. J. M. Cooper as
chairman.
"Friday is my lucky da>. Mr.,
‘ Chick' E vans ,F amous
Golfer, to Play Here
“Chick" Evans, probably the best
known amateur golfer in America, is
to be a guest of George Adair Christ
mas week and will devote much of
his time to playing over the Atlanta
Athletic Club course and other Atlan
ta links
Governor Slaton returned to At
lanta Friday, after a two weeks' busi
ness trip to New York.
He reached the city at noon, and
drove directly to the Executive Man
sion In Peachtree street, where he
and Mrs. Slaton will reside for the
remainder of the winter.
Governor Slaton was in the happiest
of spirits when he reached the Capi
tal. and expressed himself as more
than well pleased with the results of
his visit to the East. He not only
enjoyed himself immensely, but ac
complished much real work for Geor
gia
“I found the people in the East in
tensely and vitally interested in the
South.“ said the Governor, “and par
ticularly in Georgia. Whatever may
be their opinions with respect to other
sections, it Is known tihat Georgia
is prosperous—remarkably so.
Sees Ready Sale for Bonds.
"Bankers told me that Georgia gen
erally has greatly anticipated its in
debtedness to Eastern financial con
cerns this year, and that this happy
state of things was to them a sure
sign of genuine prosperity.
“T am very optimistic with regard
to the forthcoming refunding of t.reor-
gia’s bonds. I am sure, from what I
learned in the East, that our bonds
shall he eagerly snapped up. Geor
gia's credit is far and away ahead of
that of most States,
“1 have not yet, of course, perfect
ed my ideas with respect to this pro
posed refunding of Georgia bonds. I
am going to get all sorts of informa
tion in hand before I even begin to
think seriously of writing my re< om-
j rnendations for the Legislature's con-
Root-for-President
Boom Launched by
Andrew Carnegie
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Andrew
Carnegie called at the White House
to-day, held a long conversation with
Joseph Tumulty, secretary to Pres
ident Wilson, and Incidentally
launched a boom for Senator Root, of J
New York, as the next Republican
nominee for President.
“I believe Senator Root would be 1
the most popular man the Republi- |
cans could nominate in 1916," said Mr. I
Carnegie. V I think the West as well j
as the East, is coming to recognize :
his ability."
Mr. Carnegie said he expects to see 1
the present quietness in business pass I
away soon. The Ironmaster is here
to attend a meeting of the trustees
of Carnegie Institution.
Bomb in Mail Kills
Gil’l* Mail Is Dyin f) ^ lc * es Criticise Court in Long
Briefs Filed in Appeal to
Supreme Court.
NEW YORK. Dec 12—A bomb ile-
livered to-day in the office of the O.
K. Bottling Company exploded and
killed an 18-year-old girl, Ida Anuse-
wltz. Thomas McCabe, the office
manager, was fatally hurt.
The bomb was delivered by an ex
pressman and when the girl opened
it her head was blown almost to
pieces. Nearly every window in the
building was shattered.
Atlanta Woman Gets
White House Kerchief
Mr
Adair and Mr. Evans are firm i federation. I may say that I have
Cooper said, "and I believe we are
going to break the record."
32 Girls Work for Cause.
At 9 o’clock 32 young ladies had
reported for work under Mrs. Cooper,
and she said she expected to have at
least 50 workers during the day. Mrs.
Cooper said she would-have had even
more than this, but there were several
dances in town last night-
In Thursday's sale the best indi
vidual record was made by Miss Car
olina Muse, who sold $47.44 worth of
the seals in the Equitable Building.
Miss Elizabeth Dunson sold $30.10
worth in the same building, pther
records were Mrs. Hudson Moore and
Mrs. Wickliffe Goldsmith, Grant
Building, $15.84: Miss Adrienne Bat-
tey and Miss Olive Shropshire, At
lanta National Bank Building, $15.38;
Miss Laurie Johnston. Piedmont Ho
tel. $14.50.
friends, and Mr. Adair’s invitation
was accepted with the utmost heart
iness, particularly as the famous
young golfer has enjoyed Atlanta
hospitality before, and has played on
the course here when his favorite
Chicago course was snowed under.
Mystery in Death of
Clergyman’s Widow
NEW YORK, Dec 12.—Coroner’s
physicians to-day | rmed an au
topsy over Mrs. Donald Sage Mack-
ay. widow- of the famous New York
militant clergyman, who died under
mysterious circumstances in a au ii-
tarium.
Mrs. Maxkay gave the name of
Mrs. J. II, Stone, of Boston, when she
entered the institution to undergo an
operation.
Mrs. Helen Plane, honorary presi
dent of the Atlanta Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, is be
ing congratulated on the honor paid
her when a dozen members of the
organination presented her with the
handkerchief which Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson placed in the C. D. C. bazaar.
The handkerchief was hand em
broidered by the wife of the Presi
dent. The price paid for it was $20.25.
Chicago. Preparing
To House Idle Men
* HU -AGO, Dec. 12.—The < ily to
day leased a five-story West Side
building to muse some of the thou
sands of unemployed men who could
not be cared for at the municipal
shelter house
Mayor Harrison sanctioned re
quests for appropriations of $10,000
for the city to give employment to idle j
men.
the South ever witnessed.
Mr. Ferguson made the trip under
the auspices of Hearst’s Sunday
American and other Southern papers
advocating transcontinental good
roads. He left Atlanta August 18
under auspicious circumstances, the
Mayor of the city and prominent cit
izens being his escort to the city
limits.
Throughout his tour lie strenuous
ly urged road wosk. In answer to his
pleas $7,250,000 already has been ap
propriated for road improvements
over the all-Southern highway and
every
said Pathfinder Fer-
Brings Insane Sister
To Home in Rutledge
more money is being raised
day.
“Before long,
guson. “It will be an easy matter to
travel across the continent via the { TAMPA, FLA . Dei 12. Miss Ma-
route w’hich 1 have blazed mie Hollis the school-teacher whose
"All along the way The Sunday ! mind broke down while teaching at
American's good roads movement was Fort* Dade, was taken to her brother’s
met with hearty co-operation. In home at Rutledge. Ga., by her broth-
some places the citizens of the com- j er, M. J. Mollis, ot-day.
niunity turned out en masse to work t Mr. Ilollis said his sister hud never
the pikes and make them the best I shown signs of insanity before. She
ever known in those sections. j was violent while here. Mias Hollis
“Needless to say this will be of * is a woman of refinement, and her
great benefit to the country." condition is pitiful.
gone far enough In this work, how
ever, to feel that our refunding pro
gram will go through 1o our entire
satisfaction.
Old Georgia Looks Good.
"1 am glad to get back home. There
io me .is J Gec,r g ia. I’p East, every- It S LggStFaVagailCe
body is getting ready for the coming !
of Santa Claus, and I am glad to see
that Georgia is doing the same thing.
"I came home from New York a
better rind a more enthusiastic be
liever in Georgia than ever before
This was my first trip East since 1
became Governor. 1 had sources of
information open to me this time that
I never had before—I had the ears,
and in the main the sympathetic ears,
of many people who are deeply In-
«Gt.v 1,1,orei ' and her material i Wilson Much Better
“After a while, w'hen I have more
leisure, I may have some interesting
and welcome news to tell Georgians.
Just now—well, please excuse me
from going into details as to that "
Meeting Planned to
Eggstraordinary!
CHICAGO, Dec. 12 Eggstreme
eggsc-itemenv is eggatant in Chicago
to-day over the eggstraordinary an
nouncement by the eggserutive com
mittee of the eggstravagant Bakers
and Confectioners’ Association that it
will egg? h tbit a cake containing 500
eggs
But Still Kept In
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Presi
dent Wilson was much better to-day.
and White House officials are confi
dent. the mild attack of grip and
fever, from which he is suffering, will
Benefit Market Men T p,nal1 a proIonsed SU9Pension of
Great benefits are expected n th*
result of the meeting between several
hundred commission merchants and I
truck growers to take place at 8a- |
vannah the latter part of Januaij.
The meeting has been arranged by
President Charles J. Haden, of the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
vork.
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia: Fair Friday and
Saturday.
•Judge L. S. Roan, presiding
judge in the famous Frank trial,
Friday found himRelf between
two raking fires of criticism.
The bombardment was opened
by the defense in the great legal
battle. Weak and vacillating in
his conduct of the case, disposed
to shirk his duty as a judge, un
able to rule his court with a firm
and just hand—these are the
charges hurled at him in the brief
and argument of (lie defense law
yers.
If tlie judge fancied he wag to es
cape with this, lie was mistaken. He
was yet to receive a broadside from
the State’s attorneys. When the brief
of Solicitor Dorsey was made public
Friday it was found to contain a se
vere attack on Roan’s action in ex
pressing his doubt of Frank's guilt
and incorporating it in the bill of ex
ceptions that went up to the Supreme
Court.
Tliis procedure was wholly gratui
tous and uncalled for. the Solicitor
General intimated.
“Dangerous,” Adds Solicitor.
It was worse than this; it was un
usual and dangerously unprecedent
ed.
Here is what Mr. Dorsey had to sa\*
about it:
“It is unusual, and, far as wei
know, unprecedented for a court to
incorporate a statement similar to
this in a bill of exceptions.
“It is not the office or function of a,
bill of exceptions to carry the views,
of a judge, as such, or his private
views*, nor is it a vehicle for carrying
the mental processes by which th«
court below reached its conclusions.
We submit that it would be as dan
gerous a precedent to permit a judgo
to Impeach the integrity of his official
finding after the judgment is con
cluded, as it would be to permit th*
Juror, after having been discharged
from consideration of the case, to im^
peach his own verdict.”
Solicitor Dorsey, however, was noft
disposed to give Judge Roan's ex*
pression of opinion as much legal
weight as the defense had attached
to it.
He (Hd not think that the Supreme
Court should interpret it as indicate
lng a firmly fixed and compelling
doubt on the part of the trial judge*
Arguing on this point, he said
Quotes Judge’s Words.
Judge Roan stated, according i-i
the bill of exceptions, that Tie ha.%
thought more about this case thart
any other he ever tried. * * * It*
was not thoroughly satisfied tha^
Frank was guilty or Innocent.’ Th!4
Continued on Page 8, Column 1.
Bernard Shaw
Rushes to the rescue of risque dances and
plays of the London music halls, against" which
a crusade is now on. You can read all about it in
Next Sunday’s American