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Atlanta Georgian
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VOL. XTI
. NO. 114.
ATLANTA, OA., fr
WITH DAY,
DECEMBER 13, 1913.
Copyright. 1906. 9 pFVrrpa PAY NO
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1913 COTTON CROP IS 13,677,000 BALES
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RED CROSS SEAL
SALE IS PROVING
GREAT SUCCESS
DORSEY ATTACKS ROSSER’S DECISION
Miss Anne
Akers, at top,
jnd Miss Helen
Hawkins, two
Seal sellers who
have had ex
cellent results.
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 take
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
Justice does not act I think Congress
should inquire into the management
of the road.”
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MARKET UPSTATE LEADS
SI PER BILE
11 IMCREDIT
Government Figures Over 500,-
000 Short of What Traders
Had Expected.
Governor Returns From Financial
Centers Highly Optimistic Over
His Refunding Program.
eaders Expect to Raise Average
to $500 a Day as Workers’
Ranks Grow,
Nine of Atlanta’s most attractive
->ung women in four automobiles left
Gould Building at 9 o’clock this
ining with 150,000 Red Gross
•iristmas seals to be distribut
riong the public schools of the city.
f?v Monday practically every school
• ild in Atlanta will be offering Red
r>»«s seals for sale, and the keen
kalry manifested among them last
<r undoubtedly means a splendid
' vest for the open-air school fund
which the proceeds of the sale by
: b° school children will be devoted.
The party was in charge of Mrs. J.
Wade Conkling, chairman of the
°I»*-n-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-
red crosses, insignia of the an'.i-
* rrulosis work which will be dis
tributed free to the public school chil
dren.
Friday Lucky Day.
With the splendid co-operation cf
the teachers 01 the public schools,
there is no doubt the children will sell
*1.500 worth of the seals and mor-
hich, addeo to the $1,000 already n
hand, will be sufficient to maintain an
l> !>en-air school at least for one year.
The general street sales to-day are
n ‘ barge of Mrs. J. M- Cooper as
h airman.
Friday is my lucky day,” Mrs.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 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 lint -
ers and repacks. The commercial
crop, therefore, will be about 14,-
277,000 bales, allowing 600,000 bales
for these grade?.
The most interesting feature of the
figures is the remarkable falling off
in the Western States’ vield. Texas
will get but 3,930.000 bales this sea
son, as against 5,120.252 last, and
Oklahoma drops from the 1912 mark
>f 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:
Kstimate To Yield
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
1,195,000
400.000
3.930,000
900.000
G6.000
820,000
IR.000
1912-13.
1,849.303
24.386
891.880
1.215.197
fl I
I, 380.756
J. 092.552
393,314
5.120/252
299.583
825.319
58,119
15.036
13,677.000 14.076.430
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 Bight.
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 Durison sold $30. :(1
worth In the same building. Other
records were Mrs. Hudson Moore and
Mrs. WlcklifTe Goldsmith. Grant
'Building. $15.34: Miss Adrienne Bat-
tey and Miss Olive Shropshire. At
lanta National Hank Building. $15 38;
Miss I.aurie 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
rrlore money is being raised every
day. %
“Before long,” said Pathfinder Fer- I
guson, “it will be an easy matter to '
travel across the continent via the i
route which I have blazed.
“All along the way The Sunday
American's good roads movement was j
met with hearty co-operation. In
some places the. citizens of the com- :
munity turned out en masse to work j
the pikes and make them the best |
ever known in those sections.
“Needless to say this will be of ■
great benefit to the country."
Market Gees Up
$1 Per Bale.
NEW YORK, Dor. 12. The cotton
market was taken completely by sur
prise when the official estimate of
the crop wan 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 hulls, 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 esi-*.
ly movement, seized upo.i th ammu
nition thus provided them and made
a raid.
The whole list jumped 20 points, or
$1 a bale, on the news.
The market had been seesawing for
ten days, awaiting the important es
timate.
As soon as the figures were Hashed
to the floor of the exchange pande
monium broke loose and the gain was
accomplished in a very few minute*.
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, snd 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 EaBt, 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 wrjting my re< om-
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
£hat Georgia is doing tlie 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. J 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 1 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. Dee. 12.—Eggstreme
eggwitement is eggstant in Chicago
to-day over the eggstraordinary an
nouncement by the eggsecutlve com
mittee of the eggstravagant Bakers
and Confectioners' Association that it
will eggshlblt a cake containing 500
egg*.
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.
”I^a Gioconda,” wh.oh was stolen fr *m
the French Louvre more than a year
ago. has been recovered in Florence.
At the same time. Signor Uredaro,
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.
Bomb in Mail Kills
Girl; Man Is Dying
NEW YORK. Dee. 12.—A bomb de
livered to-day in the office of the O.
K. Bottling Company exploded and
killed an 18-year-old girl, Ida Anuse-
witz. 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 wag shattered,
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. (\ bazaar.
The handkerchief was hand em
broidered by the wife of the Presi
dent. The price paid for it was $20.25.
Meeting Planned to
Benefit Market Men
Gre|t 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
{ Both Sides Criticise Court in Long
Briefs Filed in Appeal to
Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Andrew
Carnegie called at tin 4 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
New York, as 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
COLUMBUS. OHIO, Dec. 12.—Frank
Kinnay, who killed Ralph E. Byrne, a
retired lake captain, in Cleveland last
February, was electrocuted in the
penitentiary this morning. He died
without revealing his past life.
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 dpfense in the great legal
battle. Weak and vacillating iri
his conduct of the ease, 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 the defense law
yers.
tf the judge fancied he was to es
cape with this, he was mistaken. Ho
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.
It 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 w*
know, unprecedented for a epurt 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 privau,
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 his 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, was not
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 Judge.
Arguing on this point, he said:
Quotes Judge’s Words.
“Judge Roan stated, according t<*
the bill of exceptions, that ‘he had
thought more about this case than
any other he ever tried. * * * He
was not thoroughly satisfied that
Frank was guilty or innocent.' This
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