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4 r Horrors in Head pear There’s a real millinery tragedy which will be revealed to readers oi Next Sunday’s American the Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use for Results V EE IOV )ITI< IE 3N - VOL. XII. NO. 114. ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1913. By C TE r &LTr« 2 CENTS. p more° DORSE’ ATTACKS ROAN’S DE Cl SI< )N c&> C&3 C&) East Eager RED CROSS SEAL SALE IS PROVING GREAT SUCCESS C&J C&1 C& &G C&J Georgia Bonds, Says Slaton S3 kv £3 Is >>5 S3 gj 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. ' * - M 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 Continued on Page 8. Column 1. Bernar dS 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 Next Sunday’s American