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VOL. XII. NO. 114. ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1913. By C TE r <r« 2 CENTS. p more°
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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.
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E. L. Ferguson, completing an 8.000
mile trip from Atlanta to the Pacific
Coast and return in an automobile,
entered Atlanta Friday, finishing one
of the most extensive tours which
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 dici-
dend, Senator Norris asserted to-day
that if the Department of Justice
failed to keep its pledges to begin
criminal proceedings he should tafte
the matter in hand.
“I shall not introduce a resolution
for a Congressional probe of the
New Haven Railroad at this time, be
cause the Department of Justice has
given assurance at various times
that it will begin criminal prosecu
tion of the officials,” said Senator
Norris, “but if the Department of
j Justice does not act I think Congress
should inquire into the management
of the road.”
UP STATE LEADS
BUIE
CREDIT
Leaders Expect to Raise Average
to $500 a Day as Workers’
Ranks Grow.
Nine of Atlanta’s most attractive
voung women in four automobiles left
the Gould Building at 9 o’clock this
mnrnihg with 150,000 Red Cross
1 ’hristmas seals to be distributed
among the public schools of the cit>
Ry Monday- practically every school
child 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
J o which the proceeds of the sale by
he school children will be devoted.
The party was in charge of Mrs. J.
Wade Conkling. chairman 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 an*i-
tuberculosis work, which will be dis
tributed free to the public school chil
dren.
Friday Lucky Day.
With the splendid co-operation (f
the teachers of the public schools,
there is no doubt the children will sell
$1,500 worth of the seals and more,
which, added to the $1,000 already in
hand, will be sufficient to maintain an
open-air school at least for one year.
The general street sales to-day are
in charge of Mrs. J. M. Cooper us
nairman.
“Friday is my lucky day,” Mrs.
Government Figures Over 500,-1 Governor Returns From Financial
000 Short of What Traders Centers Highly Optimistic Over
Had Expected. His Refunding Program.
Stolen ‘Mona Lisa’
Painting Found in
Italy; Thief Caught
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Dec. 12.—The Italian Gov
ernment notified the French Govern
ment to-day that the famous painting.
“La Giaconda,” which was stolen from
the French Louvre more than a year
ago. has been recovered in Florence
At the same time. Signor Credaro,
Minister of Public Instruction, made
official announcement in Parliament
that the picture, had been recovered
bv Government agents and that the
thief had been arrested.
WASHINGTON, Dec. f 12 —Cotton
grown this season will equal 13,677,-
000 bales, according to the official
estimate of the crop reporting board
of the Department of Agriculture, is
sued at noon to-day. Tne figures are
exclusive of linters.
The estimated crop is 6.542.850,(JOO
pounds.
It compares with 14 076,430 bales
last season, 15,692,701 fn 1911, and
11,608,616 in 1910.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12. The cotton
market was taken completely bv sur
prise when the official estimate of
the crop was issued from Washington
at noon to-day.
Hardly any traders had expected
anything less than 14.000,000 bales,
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 be
taken as meaning a big crop, but
merely as showing phenomenally ear
ly movement, seized upo.i tL ammu
nition thus provided them and made
a raid.
The whole list Jumped 20 points, or
$1 a bale, on the newa
The market had been seeaawing for
ten days, awaiting the important es
timate.
As soon as the figures were flashed
to the floor of the exchange panel >-
monium broke loose and the gain was
accomplished in a very few minutes
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 t|*> 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.'0
worth in the same building. Other
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.
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 he strenuous
ly urged road work. In answer to his
pleas $7,250,000 already has been ap
propriated for road improvements
over the all-Southern highway and
more money is being raised every
day.
“Before long,” said Pathfinder Fer
guson, “it will be an easy matter to 1
travel across the continent via the •
route which I have, blazed.
All along the way The Sunday ;
J American’s good roads movement was
| met with hearty co-operation. In
L some places the citizens of the com
munity turned out en masse to work
I the pikes and make them the best :
} ever known in those sections.
“Needless to say this will be of I
i great benefit to the country.”
‘Chick’Evans,Famous
Golfer, to Play Here
'Chick” Evans, probably the best
known amateur golfer in America, is
to be a guest of George Adair Christ
mas week and will devote much of
his time to playing over the Atlanta
Athletic Club course and other Atlan
ta links.
Mr. Adair and Mr Evans are firm
friends, and Mr. Adair’s invitation
was accepted with the utmost heart
iness, particularly as the famous 1
young golfer has enjoyed Atlanta
hospitality before, and has played on
the course here when his favorite
Chicago course was snowed under.
Mystery in Death of
Clergyman's Widow
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Coroner’s
physicians to-da> j$rformed an au
topsy over Mrs. Donald Sage Mack-
I ay, widow of the famous New York
j militant clergyman, who died under
I mysterious circumstances in a fi-
i tarium.
Mrs. Mackay gave the name of
Mrs. J. H. Stone, of Boston, when »he
entered the institution to undergo an
I operation.
6-Day Bike Racers
Take Slower Pace
NEW YORK. Dec. 12. The riders
in the six-day bicycle race slowed
down some in the 110th hour to-day
and at 2 p. m. were only 21 miles
and 2 laps ahead of the 1899 mark,
having covered 2.146 miles, 3 laps.
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 reflde 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 that 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
slate of things was to them a sure
sign of genuine jxrosperity.
“I am very optimistic with regard
to the forthcoming refunding of Geor
gia’s bonds. I am sure, from w H hat I
learned in the East, that our bonds
shall be eagerly snapped up. Geor
gia's credit is far and away ahead of
that of most States.
“I 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 recom
mendations for the Legislature’s con
sideration. I may say that I have
gone far enough In this work, how
ever. to feel that our refunding pro
gram will go through to our entire
satisfaction.
Old Georgia Looks Good.
“I am glad to get back home. There
is no place that ever looks so good
to me as Georgia. Up East, every
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 and a more, enthusiastic be
liever In Georgia than ever before.
This was my first trip East since I
became Governor I 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
terested in Georgia and her material
prosperity.
“After a while, when I have more j
leisure, I may have some interesting !
and welcome news to tell Georgians i
Just now —well, please excuse me
from going into details as to that.”
It's Eggstravagance
Eggstraordinary!
CHICAGO, Dec. 12.—Eggstreme
eggseitement is eggstant in Chicago
to-day over the eggstraordinary an
nouncement by the eggsecutive com
mittee of the eggstravagant Bakers
and Confectioners' Association that it
will eggshibir a cake containing 500
eggs
Bomb in Mail Kills
Girl; Man Is Dying
NEW YORK. Dec. 12.—A bomb de
livered to-day in the office of the O.
K. Bottiing Company exploded and
killed an 18-year-old girl, Ida Anuse-
witz. Thomas McCabe, the ofttce
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
Mrs. Helen Plane, /lonorarv 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
organization presented her w r ith the
handkerchief which Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson placed in the U. D. C. bazaar.
The handkerchief was hand em
broidered by the wife of the Presi
dent. The price paid for 1t was $20.25.
Meeting Planned to
Benefit Market Men
Great benefits are expected as th*
result of the meeting between several
hundred commission merchants and
truck growers to take place at Sa
vannah the latter part of January.
The meeting has been arranged by
President Charles J. Haden, of the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
Carnegie Booms
Root for President
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 ftoot. of
New' York, the next Republican
nominee for President.
Wilson Much Better
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
not entail a prolonged suspension of
work.
Chicago Preparing
To House Idle Men
CHICAGO, Dec. 12.—The city to
day leased a five-story West Side
building to house some of the thou
sands of unemployed men who could
not be cared for at the municipal
shelter house
THE WEATHER.
Forecast
for Atlanta and
Georgia:
Fair Friday and
Saturday.
Both Sides Criticise Court in Long
Briefs Filed in Appeal to
Supreme Court.
•Tudge I.. S. Roan, presiding
judge in the famous Frank trial,
Friday found himself between
two raking fires of criticism.
The bombardment was opened
by the defease in the great legal
battle. Weak and vacillating in
his conduct of the ease, disposer!
to shirk his duty as a judge, un
able to rule his court with a firru
and just hand—these are th<*
charges hurled at him in the brie?
and argument of the defense law.
yers.
If the Judge fancied he was to es
cape with this, he was mistaken. H*»
was yet to receive a broadside from
the State’s attorneys. When the brte*
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 guils
and incorporating it in the bill of ex
ceptions that went up to the Supreme
Court.
This 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
about it:
"'It Is unusual, and, 90 far as wtt
know, unprecedented for a court tr*
incorporate a statement similar to
this in a bill of exceptions.
“It Is not the office or function of *
bill of exceptions to carry the view*#
of a judge, as such, or h1s private
views, nor Is it a vehicle for carrying
the mental processes by which tb*
court below reached its conclusion*.
We submit that it would be as dan
gerous a precedent to permit a judg*
to impeach the integrity of his official
finding after the judgment is con
cluded. as it would be to permit tho
luror. after having been discharged
frugi consideration of the case, to im
peach his own verdict.”
Solicitor Dorsey, however, waa non
disposed to give Judge Roan's ex
pression of opinion as much legal
weight as the defense had attached
to it.
He did not think that the Supreme
Court should interpret it as indicat
ing a firmly fixed and compelling
doubt on the part of the trial judg**
Arguing on this point, he said:
Quotes Judge’s Words.
“Judge Roan stated, according t<i
the bill of exceptions, that 'he had
thought more about this case than^
any other he ever tried. • • * H<f
was not thoroughly satisfied tha*
Frank was guilty or innocent.’ Thin
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Bernar
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f Rushes to the rescue of risque dances and 1
plays of the London music halls, against which
J. AU, VV a crusac j e ls now on. You can read all about it in J
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