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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. O CENTS. PAT NO MORE. NIGHT EDITION ROAN'S DECISION IS ATTACKED BY DORSEY Gioneiii 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 • ;