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Horrors in Headgear
There’s a real millinery
tragedy which will be
revealed to readers of
Next Sunday’s American
The Atlanta Georgian
Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use for Results
IOL. XII. NO. 114.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DEGEM HER 12, 1913.
Copyright. 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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CENTS.
PAT NO
MORE.
NIGHT
EDITION
ROAN'S DECISION IS ATTACKED BY DORSEY
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SECOND
RED CROSS SEAL
SALE IS PROVING
GREAT SUCCESS
SUSIES
Texas and Oklahoma Each Drop
Off More Than Million Bales
in Report.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 12.—
Georgia’s cotton crop this season
will be 2,275,000 bales, according
to the official estimate issued by
the Department of Agriculture at
noon.
This puts Georgia second only
to Texas as a producer of cotton.
Last year Georgia was in third
place, being outstripped by Okla
homa.
The total crop of the United States
this season will be 13,677,000 bales,
compared to 14,076,430 last year and
15,692,701 in the record year, 1911.
Western States Fall Off.
These figures are exclusive of Ent
ers and repacks. The commercial
crop, therefore, will be about 14,-
277,000 bales, allowing 600,000 bales
for these grades.
The most interesting feature of the
figure# is the remarkable falling off
in the Western States’ yield. Texas
will get but 3,930,000 bales this sea
son, as against 6,120,252 last, and
Oklahoma drops from the 1912 mark
of 1,974,149 to 820,000 bales this year,
a slump of 1,000,000 bales and more.
Georgia’s gain is 426,000 bales over
last season. No other State made
anything like such a gain. Missis
sippi is nearest with 100,000 bales
gain.
The following table shows the Census
Bureau's annual cotton crop for the
season of 1913-14, as compared with the
actual yield of 1912-13:
Estimate To. Yield
Miss Anne
Akers, at top,
and Miss Helen
Hawkins, two
Seal sellers who
have had ex
cellent results.
ENDS 8,000
MILETOUD
E. L. P'erguson, 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 whicl^
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-
RACING
RESULTS
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST—Five and one-half furlongs:
Bastante. 104 (Martin), 12, 5, 2. won;
Deposit, 115 (Goose), 23-5, 7-5. 3-5,
second; Green Brae, 104 (Turner), 12,
5. 2. third. Time, 1:09 3-6. Dainty
Mint, Woodrow, Serenata, Golden
Chimes, Holy Hill also ran.
SECOND—Five and one-half fur
longs: John Marrs, 122 (Corey), 3-2,
3-5, 1-3, won; Sir Caledore, 107
(Doyle), 8, 3, 8-5. second; Willis, 122
(Skirvin), 6. 2, 4-5, third. Time, 1:10.
Toison D’Or Patty Regan. Transfor
mation, Union Jack, Mad River also
ran.
THIRD—Five and one-half fur
longs: Ancon, 11 (Wolf), 7, 2, 1, won;
Chartier, 125 (Goose). 9-10, 9-20, 1-6,
second: Charles Canned, 102 (McTag-
gart), 7, 2, 4-5, third. Tijne, 1:08 4-5.
Lord Wells. Ford Mai, Rye Straw’,
Helen M. Otranto also ran.
FOURTH—Mile and a quarter:
Over the Sands, 103 (Martin). 16-5, 1,
I- 2. won; Ella Grane, 98 (Ward), 3,
II- 10 1-2 second; Outlan, 106 (De-
ronde), 7-5, 7-10, 1-3, third. Time,
2:10 1-5. Tay Pay, Charles F. Grain
ger and Billy Baker also ran.
AT EL PASO.
FIRST—Six furlongs: Augustus
Heinze. 105 (Neylon), 16, 6, 3, won;
Da. Bailey. 110 (Gross), 6, 2, 1, sec
ond; Droll, 112 (Vandusen), 4-5. 2-5,
1-5, third. Time, 1:13 2-5. Society
Bird, Woof. Angie D., Sheffield. Fool
of Fortune, Redondo, Malay alio ran.
Race Entries on Page 2.
STATES.
Georgia
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida ...
Alabama .
Mississippi
Louisiana .
Texas
Tennessee
Arkansas .
Missouri ..
< Oklahoma
California
All others.
1913-14
Season.
2.275.000
25,000
765,000
1,333,000
68,000
1,510,000
1,196,000
400.000
3,930.000
395.000
900,000
66,000
820,000
18,000
1912-13.
16,036
13,677,000 14,076,430
Market Gees Up
$1 Per Bale.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—The cotton
market was taken completely by 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, w’ho have been arguing
all along that the hugi ginning fig
ures to December were not to be
taken as meaning a big crop, but
merely as showing phenomenally ea.*.
ly movement, seized upo.: tl. ammu
nition thus provided them and made
a raid.
The whole list jumped 20 points, or
$1 a bale, on the new#.
The market had been seesawing for
t^n days, awaiting the important es
timate.
As soon as the figures were flashed
to the floor of the exchange pand?-
monlum broke loose and the gain was
accomplished in a very few minutes.
Nine of Atlanta’s most attractive
I young women in four automobiles left
1 the Gould Building at 9 o’clock this
morning with 150,000 Red Cross
Christmas seals to be distributed
among the public schools of the city.
By Monday practically every school
child in Atlanta will be offering Red
Cross seals for sale, and the keen
rivalry manifested among them last
year undoubtedly means a splendid
harvest for the open-air school fund
to which the proceeds of the sale by
the school children will be devoted.
The party w r as 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
ladies carried 13,000 of the little dou
ble red crosses, insignia of the antl-
tubqreulosis w’ork which will be dis
tributed free to the public school chil
dren.
Friday Lucky Day.
With the splendid co-operation < f
the teachers oi the public schools,
there is no doubt the children will sell
$1,500 worth of the seals and more,
which, addea 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 as
chairman.
“Friday is my lucky day,” Mrs.
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 $4 7.44 worth of
the seals In the Equitable Building.
Miss Elizabeth Dunson sold $30.10
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.
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
travel across the continent via the
route which I have blazed.
“All along the way The Sunday
American’s good roads movement was
met with hearty co-operation. In
some places the citizens of the com
munity turned out en masse to work
the pikes and make them the best
ever known in those sections.
“Needless to say this will be of
great benefit to the country.”
Atlanta Woman Gets
White House Kerchief
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
organization presented her with 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 it was $20.25.
HOB TRIED
Governor Returns From Financial
Centers Highly Optimistic Over
His Refunding Program.
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 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
state of things was to them a sure
sign of genuine prosperity.
“I am very optimistic with regard
to the forthcoming refunding of Geor
gia’s bonds. I am sure, from what 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 1
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
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.”
It's Eggstravagance
Eggstraordinary!
CHICAGO, Dec. 12.—Eggstreme
eggseitement is egg#tant in Chicago
to-day over the eggstraordinary an
nouncement by the eggsecutive com
mittee of the eggstravagant Bakers
and Confectioner#’ Association that it
will eggshibit a cake containing 500
eggs.
Sends Bill C, O.D.by
Parcel Post; Fined
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 12.—For send
ing a receipted bill for $4.50 In a
“dummy” package C. O. D. by parcel
post, E. C. Debruton, a shoe dealer,
was fined $25.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Senator
Bacon, of Georgia, will appoint a sub
committee of the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations to read all of
the works of Brand Whitlock, former
Mayor of Toledo, to learn whether
there is anything in them which
might disqualify him for the position
of Minister to Belgium. The censor
ship established by th© Senate Com
mittee began shortly after the con
firmation of Walter H. Page as Am
bassador to Great Britain, especial
umbraae being taken at his novel,
“The Southerner.”
“If I had known in advance that
Mr. Page wrote that libel on the
South, he would never have been con
firmed,” said Senator Bacon, to-day.
LAREDO, TEXAS, Dec. 12.—Train
service to Monterey on the National
Railway's line was cut off to-day, in
dicating that the rebels are in com
plete control outside of that city. A
train which left Tuesday for Monte
rey returned to-day. having got only
as far as Villadama. Refugees who
came back on the train said that there
was a heavy force of rebels near Vil
ladama.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—A sharp
break occurred in New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad stock
this afternoon and the shares went to
65 7-8, the lowest at which they ever
sold. This price represented a net
loss of 3 points on the day.
NEW YORK, Dec.. 12.—Ed Konst -
ohy, first baseman of the St. Louis
Cardinals, will likely go to Pittsburg
in exchange for First Baseman Miller
and Outfielder Wilson. Managers
Clark and Huggins are now in secret
session trying to fix up the terms of
the deal.
DETROIT. MICH., Dec. 12.—Wear
ing diamonds valued at $1,200, a
woman 21 years old who gave her
name as Mrs. Beryl Wyant, of Three
Rivers, Mich., is held in the police
station while the police attempt to
solve the past of the “woman of mys
tery.” She «ays her hustand is a
Cincinnati drug salesman for Jurgens
& Co. She may be Mis* Jessie Mc
Cann, the missing New York girl.
She is described as a blonde with
blue eyes and weighs about 125
pounds. Telegrams have been sent
to New York. Chicago, Philadelphia
and Three Rivers in an effort to
identify.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—President
Baker, of the Philadelphia National
League baseball team this afternoon
withdrew from the contest for Joe
Tinker, ex-manager of the Cincin
nati Reds, leaving it to Chicago and
Pittsburg.
ELKTON, MD, Dec. 12.—L. J.
Moore, of Salisbury, Md., and Mrs.
Harry Pieros, a widow of Wilming
ton. Del., were killed to-day when
their automobile turned turtle.
CHATTANOOGA. TENN., Dec. 12.
—A Federal Jury to-day returned a
verdict for the defendant in the dam
age suits of J. H. and J. J. Vestal
against th© Ducktown Sulphur, Cop
per and Iron Company, of Ducktown,
Tenn.
Th© Vestals asked $37,500 alleging
that timber in 10,000 acres of land
was injured by copper fumes.
England Champion
In Torture, Asserts
Sylvia Pankhurst
LONDON. Dec. 1.—Miss Chrlfftobel
Pankhurst said to-day that there
was still one sport in which Eng
lishmen hold the championship of the
world—woman torture. “We doubt,”
she continued, “whether their su
premacy- will he challenged in that
field. The defect of the Pugilist
Wellsby Carpienter, a Frenchman, is
offset by the Englishmen'# prowess
a# displayed by their capture of Mrs.
Emmeline Pankhurst.
“While English sportsmen are be
ing beaten at all points by men of
other lands, they still are able, aided
by two dreadnaughts and several
hundred strong, to overcome one wo
man—for a few days, even if she de
feated them in the end. compelling
them to let her go through either
deaths door or the unlocked prison
doors.”
Both Sides Criticise Court in Long
Briefs Filed in Appeal to
Supreme Court.
Chicago Preparing
To House Idle Men
Judge L. S. Roan, presiding
judge in the famous Frank trial,
Friday found himself 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 judg?, 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 the defense law
yers.
If the Judge fancied he was to es
cape with this, he was mistaken. Ha
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.
This procedure was wholly gratui
tous and uncalled for, the Solicitor
General intimated.
“Dangerous,” Adds Solicitor.
Jt was worse than this; it was un
usual and dangerously unprecedent
ed.
Here is what Mr. Dorsey had to say
about it:
"It Is unusual, and, so far as we
know, unprecedented for a court to
Incorporate a statement similar to
this in a bill of exception#
"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 the
court below reached its conclusions.
We submit that it would be as dan
gerous a precedent to permit a Judge
to impeach the integrity of hia official
finding after the Judgment is con
cluded. as It would be. to permit the
juror, after having been discharged
from consideration of the case, to im
peach his own verdict.”
Solicitor Dorsey, however, wa# not
disposed to give Judge Roan's ex
pression of opinion a# 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 judge.
Arguing on this point, he said:
Quotes Judge’s Words.
“Judge Roan stated, according to
the bill of exceptions, that ’he had
thought more about this case than
any other he ever tried. • • * Ke
was not thoroughly satisfied that
Frank was guilty or innocent.’ This
Continued on Page 8, Column 1.
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 j
Georgia: Fair Friday and j
Saturday.
Bernard Shaw
Rushes to the rescue of risque dances and
plays of the London music halls, again?t which
a crusade is nowon. You can read all about it in
Next Sunday’s American
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